Lewis v. City of Tulsa

This case involves the asserted liability of a municipality to a person who claims to have been injured while traveling along a sidewalk by reason of an alleged defect in the walk. It differs from many cases with which we are confronted in that the defective condition of the walk is alleged to have been created as the result of the adoption by the municipality of an improper plan of construction as distinguished from the failure on the part of the municipality to repair or properly maintain the walk after the construction thereof. This distinction, as we shall subsequently point out, requires…