Konieczny v. Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Presque Isle; Emerick, J. Case by John Konieczny, administrator of the estate of Eufrozyna Konieczny, against the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company for the alleged negligent death of his intestate. A judgment for defendant is reviewed by plaintiff on writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff and his wife were residents of the village of Metz near Alpena, previous to its de*68struetion by the forest fires, which swept and desolated that region in 1908. We may take judicial notice of the desperate situation in which the rural population and the inhabitants of the new and small villages of that section were placed. It is also plainly shown by this record.
It appears beyond and without dispute that on October 15, 1908, the village of Metz was in great danger of destruction, and that in spite of vigorous efforts to prevent, the fire from the woods burned it up, leaving not a…
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- Underhill v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1890
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