Pequignot v. City of Detroit
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
On Motion for a New Trial. The plaintiff brought suit against the city of Detroit to recover damages forpersonal injuries sustained by her,by reason of a defective -walk across an alley which intersects Twenty-third street, between Fort and Lafayette. The plaintiff recovered a verdict, and defendant moved for a new trial upon the grounds stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The first error assigned by the defendant is based upon the ruling of the court, that the walk, upon which the plaintiff met her fall, was a crosswalk and not a sidewalk, within the meaning of the state act of 1879, No. 244. This act, which is entitled “An act for the collection of damages sustained by reason of defective public highways, streets, bridges, crosswalks, and culverts,” creates a liability in favor of persons “sustaining bodily injury upon any of the public highways or streets in this state, by reason of neglect to keep such public highways or streets, and all bridges,…
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