Markoff v. Detroit United Railway

The plaintiff brought suit to recover damages to his person and property by reason of an alleged unprovoked, vicious, and unjustifiable assault committed upon him while boarding a standing car of defendant, by one of its conductors, at the trolley station of the defendant on Fort street west and Woodward avenue, in the city of Detroit, on January 12, 1910. In his declaration, after alleging the circumstances of the assault, he set forth his injuries in the following language:

“ And the plaintiff further avers that by reason of the negligent, careless, reckless, improper, and vicious conduct of…