City of Rome v. Potts

T. B. Potts brought suit against the City of Borne for damages as the result of personal injuries, alleging, in substance, that as he was crossing Broad street in said city he was compelled to walk rapidly or be caught in the street upon the change in the traffic light; that "several inches” of snow had fallen and the city had negligently permitted it to accumulate and remain in the cross-way or walkway across Broad street, which was marked out between parallel lines; that “said snow, after having been trampled under the traffic on the street, froze and befcame slick as ice;” that…