City of Laurel v. Hutto

This is an appeal by the City of Laurel from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jones County,'which, on the verdict of the jury, awarded Miss Beatrice Hutto the sum of $10,000 for personal injuries.

Miss Hutto’s declaration, in effect, alleged that on July 16, 1951, while she was walking along a pathway in the City’s Daphne Park, in a careful and observant man*259•ner, she stepped in a hole, broke her leg, and sustained a serious injury; that the City knew, or by the exercise of reasonable care ought to have known, about the hole, because it had existed for a long time; that the City also knew, or…