Reed v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Carpenter, J. Case by Anne Reed against the city of Detroit for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff was injured by stepping into a defective culvert, for which she recovered a judgment against the city. The record shows but two questions: (1) Whether the denial of a motion to continue by reason of the absence of a material witness was error; (2) whether certain testimony was admissible, court and counsel having treated the matter as an offer of testimony, which was excluded.
The first question need not be discussed, for the reason that, if there was no error in excluding the offered testimony, the defendant suffered no injury from the denial of the motion. It was proposed to…
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