CITY OF TALLASSEE v. HARRIS

81-833, 81-881.

431 So.2d 1177 (1983)

CITY OF TALLASSEE v. Karen Michelle HARRIS, etc., et al. Frank HARRIS v. CITY OF TALLASSEE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Ball, Jr., of Ball, Ball, Duke & Matthews, Montgomery, and Willard Pienezza, Tallassee, for City of Tallassee.

Ernest C. Hornsby of Hornsby & Schmitt, Tallassee, and Mays Jemison, Montgomery, for appellant Frank Harris.

Ernest C. Hornsby of Hornsby & Schmitt, Tallassee, Mays Jemison, Montgomery, Linda Benson, East Tallassee, for appellees Karen Michelle Harris, et al.


MADDOX, Justice.

The issues in these consolidated appeals are: whether the trial court erred in refusing to give certain instructions as requested by defendant City of Tallassee concerning its liability for the condition of an alley inside its city limits where the collision occurred; whether the evidence was sufficient as a matter of law for the jury to conclude the alley was a public way and that the defendant city was negligent in not making the alley reasonably...

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