Monyhan v. Detroit & Saline Plank-Road Co.

Plaintiff recovered damages claimed to have been sustained by the tipping over of a sleigh upon which the plaintiff was riding; the team attached being driven by one Walter Carver, his employer. The sleigh was loaded with a log of about 400 feet, board measure. His claim is that the north part of the traveled portion of the road was filled, and had been for several days, with snowdrifts, which the witnesses state to have been from 3 to 9 feet high, to avoid which it was necessary to drive so that the runners of the sleigh were driven upon the ties of an electric road, which ties projected…