CITY OF JACKSONVILLE v. HAMPTON

No. A-411.

108 So.2d 768 (1959)

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, a municipal corporation, Appellant, v. R.E. HAMPTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

February 10, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Madison, Inman P. Crutchfield and Claude L. Mullis, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Hall, Hartwell & Douglass, Tallahassee, and Will O. Murrell, Jr., Jacksonville, for appellee.


STURGIS, Chief Judge.

The City of Jacksonville, defendant below, appeals from a judgment for R.E. Hampton, plaintiff below, entered in a suit to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to result from negligence of the city in failing to properly maintain the steps of its City Hall.

At the conclusion of plaintiff's case and again at the conclusion of all of the evidence defendant moved for a directed verdict on the ground that plaintiff had failed to...

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