CITY OF DOTHAN v. GULLEDGE

4 Div. 178.

163 So.2d 217 (1964)

CITY OF DOTHAN v. Roy A. GULLEDGE, Jr., pro aml.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. R. Lewis, Dothan, for appellant.

J. Hubert Farmer, Dothan, for appellee.


MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee, a minor eight years of age and suing by his father as next friend, recovered a judgment of $1,900 against appellant for damages sustained when appellee entered an opening in a storm sewer catch basin and slipped on a ladder inside the sewer. The case was tried on the doctrine of attractive nuisance. A motion for a new trial was denied.

The storm sewer catch basin where appellee was hurt was in the city airfield about 175 yards from...

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