City of Meridian v. Crook

Citations

• 109 Miss. 700
• 69 So. 182

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipal Corporation. Sidewalks. Duty to maintain. Streets. Accidents. Burden of proof. Negligence.</p> <p>Municipalities are only required to exercise ordinary care to keep and maintain their streets' and sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition for the use of persons exercising ordinary care and caution.</p> <p>2. Municipal Corporations. Sidewalks. Accidents. Burden of proof.</p> <p>In a suit by a traveler against a municpality for injury caused by a defective sidewalk, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show negligence on the part of the municipality in constructing or maintaining such sidewalk.</p> <p>3. Municipal Corporations. Streets. Negligence.</p> <p>The fact that the bricks in a sidewalk of a municipality become loose and some of them were missing, leaving a depression about three inches in depth, does not show such negligence on the part of a municipality as would warrant a recovery by a pedestrian, who tripped and fell in stepping into such depression.</p>