Mayor of Savannah v. Waters

The amended petition for damages against the municipality on account of the death of the plaintiff’s daughter, aged four years and fourteen days, in effect alleged, that while the plaintiff was necessarily absent from her home in the city, a street-sweeper, who was an employee of the municipality, swept up with a scrub-brush a quantity of leaves, sticks, “and other trash,” which covered the paved street, and after piling them in front of the gate to the plaintiff’s home, set fire to the pile of trash and went away; that the child played about the flame, and her clothing-caught fire, and this…