Ridgeway v. City of Escanaba

The trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant in this cause, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The action was for negligence, plaintiff alleging that he suffered an injury through a fall upon defendant’s defective sidewalk. The case was made to turn on the question of a variance between the pleading and the statutory notice of the injury, as given by plaintiff, and the injury proved. In other words, the trial judge was of the opinion that the proof showed that the plaintiff had not given a notice which set forth substantially the extent of the injury actually received, and that, although…