114 Ga. 194 | Ga. | 1901
Mrs. Cheney sued the City of Rome for $25,000 damages on account of the death of her nine-year-old son, upon whom she alleged that she was largely dependent for a support. Her petition set up that the defendant had negligently constructed and permitted to remain in a dangerous condition a large open sewer on the edge of the sidewalk on a named street in the city, which open sewer emptied into a large underground covered sewer leading to the Oostanaula river; that these sewers are and were so constructed that they have great fall, and decline rapidly towards the
Judgment reversed.