Dempsey v. City of Detroit

The plaintiff in this case, an elderly woman, allegedly suffered a fractured hip and other serious injury when she fell upon a broken sidewalk within the corporate limits of the defendant city, on May 14, 1964. By letter of July 2, 1964, her attorney gave notice of this injury to the corporation counsel of the defendant city. This letter identified the location of the accident merely as “sidewalk on Adams and Woodward”.

On October 30, 1964, the plaintiff brought this action in Wayne county circuit court, to recover damages for her injury. The trial court granted the defendant city’s motion for…