Case Name: Mayor and Council of Americus v. Gartner
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1912-03-06
Citations: 10 Ga. App. 754
Docket Number: 3838
Parties: Mayor and Council of Americus v. Gartner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 754–754

Head Matter:
3838.
Mayor and Council of Americus v. Gartner.
Decided March 6, 1912.
Action for damages; from city court of Americus — Judge Little-john.
October 6, 1911.
R. L. Maynard, Bilis, Webb & Bilis, for plaintiff in error.
W. P. Wallis, Jones & Childers, B. A. Nisbet, contra.

Opinion:
Pottle, J.
1. It is the duty of a municipal corporation to use ordinary care to keep the streets over which it has control in a safe condition for travel both by day and by night. Holliday v. Athens, ante, 709.
2. Under the evidence, the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury was an elevation which had been negligently permitted by the city to remain in one of its public streets. The jury were warranted in finding that the plaintiff could not, by the exercise of ordinary care, have avoided the consequences of the defendant's negligence; and, no error of law being complained of, the verdict in the plaintiff's favor will not be disturbed. Judgment affirmed.