Thompson v. City of Albion

This is an action at law to recover $25,000 in damages for personal injuries caused by negligence of the city of Albion, defendant. Plaintiff was a member of its volunteer fire department. Responding to a fire alarm October 9, 1922, he assisted in vertically hoisting the door to the fire apparatus, intending to enter the building in which it was housed. While in the open doorway, the door broke loose from cables on which it was suspended above by heavy weights and struck him below his left knee, resulting in subsequent amputation. The cables ran in concealed perpendicular slots in the walls…