Lincoln v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff recovered for an injury received at the intersection of Franklin and Rivard streets, in Detroit. The theory of the plaintiff was that the injury occurred from his stepping on the edge of the iron covering of a manhole, which was situated judt outside the sidewalk, and at the corner formed by the intersection of the two crosswalks with the sidewalk. The evidence tended to show that the covering to the manhole rested upon a stone .which formed a rim, and that either because this stone had worn away, dr because originally too large for the purpose, whenever a person stepped on the edge…