City of Rome v. Alexander

6aedner, J.

Alexander sued the City of Rome, and alleged that he had sustained certain damage to his automobile because the city had allowed a certain hole to be dug in a main, traveled street, and had failed to properly guard such hole with barricades or signals as to its presence, and that without negligence on his part, because such hole had become filled with water and it being in the nighttime and raining at the time, and there being nothing to ivarn him of its presence, he drove his automobile into said hole or excavation. The city denied that it had left any such hole in the street…