Morrison v. Carpenter

The plaintiff, a young man 20 years old at the time of the injury complained of, brings this suit to recover damages for an injury received by him on the evening of October 23, 1911, resulting from his falling into an excavation in the right of way of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, near the east end of that company’s bridge across Grand river, in the city of Grand Rapids. The excavation was made under the premises of the said railroad company by the defendants in pursuance, and in execution of, a contract between defendants and the city of Grand Rapids for building what is known as the…