City of Mobile v. Reeves

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] Pierce L. Reeves was a motorcycle officer of the City of Mobile. While riding a a motorcycle on September 24, 1944, along Virginia Street in the City of Mobile in the discharge of his duties, he ran into a saucer like depression in the pavement of the street. The result was that he was thrown from the motorcycle and died of his injuries without recovering consciousness. Suit was instituted under the homicide act against the City of Mobile and Carey W. George and…