City of Rome v. Stewart

The defendant in error instituted an action against the City of Rome, to recover damages for injuries which it was alleged she sustained in consequence of a fall occasioned by an improperly constructed iron cylinder used, in the language of some of *739the witnesses, as a “ water cut-off/’ which was placed on the sidewalk of one of the streets of the city. She claimed that such cylinder was covered with an iron cap or top, and that this was loose and unsteady; that on the day named, while she was walking on said street, she stepped on the cap or covering of the cylinder; that : it turned under…