City of Detroit v. Beckman

Cooley, Oh. J:

This action was brought by the defendant in error to *126recover for the negligent killing of her intestate. The death appears to have been caused by the intestate running the wagon which he was driving through one of the city streets off the end of a culvert and overturning into a ditch. The accident took place late in the evening, and the complaint is, that the city was negligent in causing so short a culvert to be constructed, and leaving so much of the ditch open and unprotected. The ditch and culvert were not of recent construction, and it was not alleged that there was any…