Boehm v. City of Detroit

The plaintiff, an infant, brought suit, by his next friend, against the city of Detroit for injuries alleged to have been received on the night of August 14, 1901, through a defective sidewalk. At the time of the accident the plaintiff was a little over four years old, and was walking over the sidewalk in question between his father and mother; his father holding him by the left hand. As they were going along, the child stepped into a hole in the sidewalk and fell with considerable force against his father. Plaintiff alleges in his declaration that by reason of this fall—

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