Abrey v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Frazer, J. Case by George T. Abrey against the city of Detroit for injuries to a building. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error. The plaintiff had judgment for alleged injuries to his building, claimed to have been caused by the filling in of earth on the side of the roadway which was the approach to the Belle Isle Park Bridge.
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Error to Wayne; Frazer, J. Case by George T. Abrey against the city of Detroit for injuries to a building. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error. The plaintiff had judgment for alleged injuries to his building, claimed to have been caused by the filling in of earth on the side of the roadway which was the approach to the Belle Isle Park Bridge. His testimony supports the following statement of facts: The approach extends southerly from Jefferson avenue to the bridge, and had been used for some time before plaintiff’s building was constructed; but, although the grade line of…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). 1. Error is assigned upon the ruling of the court in admitting testimony on the part of the plaintiff as to the cost of repairing the *377building by putting a stone or brick foundation under it. Two witnesses had already testified to this without objection. On the following day one of the witnesses was recalled, and revised his figures, showing the cost to be much less than that testified to by him the day before. After detailing how he intended to do this work, he was asked to give a detail of his estimate. To this the objection was made, “I object to this class of…
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