Burns v. Estate of Reading

This case originated in the probate court of Wayne county where appellant, Burns, filed a claim against the estate of Harvey J. Reading for personal injuries sustained on June 1, 1910, while in the employ of Reading, who then was engaged in the trucking business in the city of Detroit and had a warehouse in which goods were at times stored. On the day of the accident a truck driver named Wilson and appellant, Burns, were sent late in the afternoon to haul some old office partitions from Reading’s office on Wood-bridge street to his warehouse. When they arrived at the warehouse with the load…