Abbott v. City of Detroit

In this case plaintiff recovered a judgment of $900 against defendant for personal injuries claimed to have been received by reason of a fall caused by a defective cross-walk in said city. The injury occurred June 9,1904. Plaintiff, about 6 o’clock p. m., in company with three others who were going home from *247their work walking four abreast, was crossing a gutter plank at a street corner. One of the others stepped upon one end of the plank which caused it to rise up, and all were thrown down. It caught plaintiff’s foot and she was thrown forward upon her hands and knees. One of her knees was…