Corry v. City of Columbia
Decision Date | 04 May 1911 |
Citation | 71 S.E. 49,88 S.C. 553 |
Parties | CORRY v. CITY OF COLUMBIA. |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Richland County; R. W Memminger, Judge.
Action by E. E. Corry against the City of Columbia. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
A. M Lumpkin and C. T. Cunningham, for appellant. Christie Benet for respondent.
Plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant municipality in a magistrate's court for $100, as damages alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant in permitting to remain in a defective and unprotected condition a certain hole about three inches in diameter, a broken-out disk in one of the cellar lights on the sidewalk on Washington street near the rear of the Carolina National Bank Building, whereby plaintiff, a cripple with one leg and compelled to use a crutch, while passing along the sidewalk going towards Main street on the night of April 28, 1909, was violently thrown to the ground and injured, by his crutch going through said hole, without fault on his part.
The circuit court, Judge Memminger, reversed the judgment of the magistrate and rendered judgment for the defendant based upon the following conclusions:
There is some evidence tending to support the conclusions of fact by the circuit court, and hence under the well-established rule these conclusions must be accepted as final, and are not reviewable.
The rule governing the duty of the city in the repair of its streets is ordinary care. Berry v. Greenville, 84 S.C. 122, 65 S.E. 1030.
There was no allegation nor proof that...
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