City of Newport v. Lewis

Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellee, Virginia Lewis, an infant five years of age, suing in her own right and by her statutory guardian, recovered in this action a verdict and judgment in the court below of $200.00 damages against the appellant, City of Newport, because of injuries sustained by her from a fall caused, as alleged in the petition, by the *833negligence of the city in failing to keep one of its side walks in a reasonably safe condition for the nse of pedestrians.

It appears from the averments of the petition that appellee sustained a fracture of a bone of one of…