Williams v. Edmunds

The defendant is the proprietor of a livery stable in the city of Detroit.

*93On the twenty-fourth day of December, 1886, one of his carriages, driven by Daniel Sullivan, an employé, ran over the plaintiff at a street crossing at the corner of the Campus Martius and Monroe avenue, severely injuring her.

The substantial ground of complaint in the plaintiff’s declaration was that the defendant, by his servant Sullivan, so carelessly, rapidly, and improperly drove, governed, and directed his carriage and horses, that by and through the carelessness, negligence, and improper conduct of the defendant,…