Grandorf v. Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injuries. According to the claims of plaintiff, the defendant *497was engaged in paving between its tracks in the fall of 1895, and for this purpose used stone from 8 to 14 inches long-, 4 inches thick, and from 7 to 7-J- inches deep. The stone for this purpose were piled along the street, and left there for some little time. Some were piled up loosely inside the curb, and projected over the sidewalk about a foot and a half. It was claimed that the sidewalk was shaky; that, when people walked along it, their weight would loosen some of the stone piled on the walk,…