Bridge Co. v. Barnes

The plaintiff below recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of Davidson County against the Youngstown Bridge Company, for the sum of four thousand ($4,000) dollars damages for personal injuries. The bridge company appealed, and has assigned errors. The gravamen of the action, as outlined in the declaration, is that the defendant company, in the process of erecting the structural steel work for the Jackson building, in the city of Nashville, negligently and carelessly *403placed a pile of girders on Summer Street, and that while the plaintiff, Miss Jennie Barnes, was driving along the street in…