Mead v. Michigan Central Railroad

Plaintiffs brought suit in the circuit court for Wayne county against defendant in an action on the case in trespass for damages claimed to have been suffered through wrongfully digging and excavating in the street along the property owned by plaintiffs, thereby lowering the grade of said street from three to eight feet, against the protest of plaintiffs. To the declaration filed in the case defendant entered a plea of the general issue with notice that by an agreement with the city of Detroit for the separation of grades at Twentieth street and its railroad, near where plaintiff’s property…