Case ID: ga_68/html/0834-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Trippe vs. The City of Atlanta.
    A declaration sought to recover damages from a municipal corporation. It alleged the following facts : Plaintiff was riding along one of the streets of the city when his horse became frightened and ran away. Plaintiff succeeded in stopping him, when he began to kick against the dash-board, and plaintiff sprang from the buggy. The street for some distance in that vicinity was in very bad condition, and had been so for a considerable time, and the city had notice of the fact; there were deep and ragged gullies washed in the street and in the bottom of one of them was a deep and narrow rut; into this plaintiff’s foot slipped, and being unable to keep his equipoise, he fell, his leg was broken and he was badly injured. The injury would not have resulted but for the gully which defendant’s negligence allowed to remain in its street, and was exclusively and wholly caused thereby :
    
      Held, that the allegations of the declaration made a prima facie case, and it was not demurrable. Dillon on Mun. Corps., §§1007, 1015, 1019 (3d ed.); 50 Ga., 544; 60 Ib., 474.
    Speer, Justice.