Kornetzski v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff's intestate, while driving upon Mack street, in Detroit, was thrown from his wagon, March 15, 1890, and killed.

Mack street is unpaved, the roadbed is narrow, and the Detroit City Railway had laid its track in the center of the street during the previous summer, at which time the grade of the highway had been conformed to the grade of the railway track. It was but about eight or ten feet from the track to the ditch on either- side of the highway. The highway outside of the track was in a very bad condition, due to an open winter, and to the fact that the travel when upon the roadway…