CITY OF PRICHARD v. KELLEY

78-420.

386 So.2d 403 (1980)

CITY OF PRICHARD, Alabama, a Municipal Corporation v. Thomas Lonnie KELLEY, Jr.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 25, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Kennamer, Mobile, for appellants.

Benjamin H. Kilborn and Grey Redditt, Jr. of Kilborn & Redditt, Mobile, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

What duty does a city owe to persons using its streets to maintain a traffic control sign at an intersection once a sign has been placed there by the city? That is the central issue on this appeal.

The facts necessary to decide the issue are not substantially controverted. On July 7, 1976, the plaintiff/appellee Thomas Lonnie Kelley, Jr., received serious injuries when a motorcycle he was riding collided with an automobile driven by one Ellarene...

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