City of Lansing v. Toolan
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ingham. Trespass on the case against a municipal corporation for damages from negligence. Plaintiff below obtained judgment on a verdict, and defendant brought up the case on bill of exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, C. J.
Toolan brought suit against the City of Lansing to recover damages for an injury received by him from falling into a ditch which he alleges was cut by authority of the city across one of its streets and negligently left uncovered and unguarded. The facts appear to have been that one Van Keuren was employed by the city to build a wing to one of the bridges over Grand Kiver, and that in the prosecution of that work he found it necessary to cut the ditch in question across a street near it, to keep the water after a heavy rain fall from rushing against and destroying his unfinished wall. This he…
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