Cone v. City of Detroit

The plaintiffs husband was killed by a motor fire truck belonging to the city of Detroit. He was standing in the V-shaped entranceway of a store on Jefferson avenue, in Detroit, when the truck, in charge of firemen in the employ of the city, was being driven rapidly along Jefferson avenue to a fire. At the corner of Griswold street, where there is a curve joining the street car tracks intersecting at that point, the truck ran over a hole in the asphalt pavement which was, roughly, 2 or 3 feet long and 10 to 18 inches wide, and adjacent to the curve. The force of the rebound from the drop into…