Allen v. . Bessemer City

Plaintiff alleged and offered evidence tending to show that the American Cotton Mills, Incorporated, owned a certain village for the use of its employees and had opened a street through the property, which was habitually used by employees in going to and from work in the mill, and that the defendant town by virtue of an easement, had installed a manhole in one of said paths or streets; that the same was maintained in a negligent manner by virtue of the fact that an unguarded and unlighted manhole was situated near the edge of the pathway, and that in using the pathway to reach the mill she…