Legal Opinion
Browning v. City of Gadsden
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 26, 1978PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bonnie Browning appeals from the granting of a motion to dismiss filed by the City of Gadsden in an action brought by Browning to recover for personal injuries which she sustained as the proximate consequence of alleged negligence of the city in maintaining a public driveway in a dangerous and defective condition. We reverse.
Browning was injured on February 3, 1976, when she stepped into a hole in the pavement of a driveway which runs from the entrance of Baptist Memorial Hospital to Goodyear Avenue in Gadsden, Alabama. On May 11, 1976 Browning filed suit against the hospital and three…
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