Irwin v. Township of Byron

The plaintiff recovered a judgment in the Kent circuit court, for personal injuries which he claims to have incurred in consequence of a defective highway in defendant township. It appears from the record that the plaintiff was the owner of two farms in Byron township. In the highway lying between them was a long, steep hill, known as Whitcomb Hill. Toward evening on the 15th day of April, 1910, plaintiff hitched his horses to a lumber wagon and started for his other farm a mile and a half away, to get several swarms of bees. His daughter and four young people accompanied him. The going part…