Mayor of Montezuma v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal corporations. Allegata and probata. Negligence. Notice. Evidence. Verdict.' New trial. Before Judge Eort. Macon superior court. November term, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Wilson sued the mayor and aldermen of Montezuma for damages. In his declaration he alleged that, on the thirteenth of August, 1885, he was walking on the sidewalk of a street in that town at night, and when crossing a little bridge or crossway across said sidewalk, covering a ditch two feet deep, he stepped into a hole in the sidewalk and near said crossing, and fell into the ditch; whereby he was injured. He alleged that this crossing was badly constructed, and that between the outer planks and the earth was a hole about six inches by twelve through which the petitioner…
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