Joslyn v. City of Detroit

The record in this case shows that defendant Frisbie owned a lot on Clifford street, in the *459city of Detroit, in 1886, near where he resided; that he let a job of building a house on the lot in April, 1886, and that the defendants Julien w'ere the builders under a contract from Frisbie; that on April 23, the parties building the house had a pile of sand lying in front of the house in the street. It had been there for more than a month, and in the evening of said day the plaintiff was riding along said street, when it was so dark she could not see the said pile, which was from a foot and a half…