Shadock v. Alpine Plank-road Co.

This suit is one to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by plaintiff’s fall from his wagon at a place on defendant’s gravel road where a log had been left in the way, whereby the wagon was jolted so that he was thrown off. The suit was not begun till within a few days of sis years after the accident. The damages were alleged as the result of plaintiff’s being hurt, bruised, and wounded, whereby he was made sick, etc.

Plaintiff’s version of the affair is substantially this: That on a day in January, 1882, during the morning, he was driving a double wagon to Grand Rapids,…