Kelley ex rel. Gibbs v. Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent. (Burch, J.) Negligence case. Defendant brings error. The facts are stated in -the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCahill, J.
The plaintiff sued to recover damages for an injury to her left ankle, caused by a fall while alighting from, defendant’s train at Lakeview station, October 6, 1888.
The declaration is not set out in the printed record, and no point is made upon its sufficiency. It alleges negligence on the part of defendant in failing to provide suitable and safe attendance and appliances for the safety of passengers in alighting from defendant’s coach, and charges that defendant stopped its train in the darkness, where no lights were burning, and placed a box step so carelessly,—
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