Martin v. Leslie

This is a pedestrian accident case. The-accident occurred shortly after midnight on December 19, 1951. Plaintiff had been forced to abandon his car and was walking home in a westerly direction on the 13 Mile road. There was much snow on the-ground. A police officer testified “there was enough snow on the road so you couldn’t see the road.”' Plaintiff testified that-it also obscured the sidéwalk.. “You could not tell where the sidewalk was at,” he- said. The walk was, moreover, to his knowledge (he lived in this vicinity) in poor condition, “humped up in a lot of places.” Consequently, at the…