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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM v. WRIGHT

78-609.

379 So.2d 1264 (1980)

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM v. Bessie WRIGHT

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milford G. Bass, Jr., of King, Bass & King, Birmingham, for appellant.

Shay Samples, J. E. Sawyer, Jr., of Bachus, Crowson, Harris and Sawyer and Hogan, Smith & Alspaugh, Birmingham, for appellee.

TORBERT, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from the judgment entered on the jury verdict of $20,000 in favor of Bessie Wright, and against the City of Birmingham for negligent maintenance of a sidewalk in violation of Code 1975, § 11-47-190. The incident which gave rise to the suit below was the fact that Mrs. Wright fell, sustaining a broken wrist and other injuries, when she stepped into a lowered area near the corner of 19th Street and 2nd Avenue North, where...

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