Ryan v. Towar
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Marquette; Stone, J. Case by Mary Ryan, by next friend, against Edgar H. Towar, impleaded with the Bice Manufacturing Company and John M. Longyear, for personal injuries. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The Bice Manufacturing Company is an existing corporation, which formerly carried on a manufacturing business at Marquette. Its plant has been shut down for some years. Among other structures, it owned a small pump-house, located upon ground owned by a railroad company, under an arrangement between them. In the house was a small overshot water-wheel. The plaintiff, a girl between 12 and 13 years of age, was in the habit of passing this pump-house on the way to school, with her brothers and sisters; going across lots through the field, because it was nearer. For some time previous to the time…
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