Alexander v. . Statesville

Action to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been caused by defendant's negligence.

Plaintiff is a boy about 7 years old, and was, at the time he was hurt, a pupil at the graded school in Statesville. Defendant was engaged in widening Bell Street some 15 feet and constructing a culvert underneath it. Plaintiff contended that the work of widening the street had been completed and the street open for travel, the space between the head-walls of the culvert having been filled with dirt to the intended street level, and the sidewalks completed. That there were no barriers or…