City of Tallahassee v. Hawes

Citations

• 81 Fla. 123
• 87 So. 765

Syllabus

<p>Where a declaration alleges that, as a result of the city’s negligence, a pedestrian was injured'hy the falling of an awning over a city sidewalk, when, a defectively secured support post was jerked from under the awning by a horse hitched thereto, and the evidence shows without objection that “hitching horses to posts on that street was a pretty common practice,” and that the defective condition of the post supporting the awning was apparent and had been so for some weeks, and the same post had a short time before been, jerked from its proper place by a horse hitched thereto, a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff are not erroneous as matter of law.</p>