Legal Opinion

Kinney v. Onsted

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided May 25, 1897PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Error to Lenawee; Lane, J. Case by George B. Daniels against John Onsted for personal injuries. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brought error. Plaintiff died pending the .appeal, and the cause was revived in the name of his administrator, Frank D. Kinney. Judgment reversed.

1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.

This action was instituted by George B. Daniels in his lifetime, to recover damages sustained by reason of the alleged defective condition of the defendant’s premises. The material facts in the *97case, as disclosed by the evidence, are that the defendant was the proprietor of a grain elevator, which consisted of a building 22 feet wide and 40 feet in length. On the south side of this building there is a bridge 12 feet in width, with an approach leading up to it at either end, of the same width. A pair of rolling doors, 7i feet wide, open from about the center of the building onto this bridge or…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Orcutt v. Kittery Point Bridge Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1866

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Means v. Southern California Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1904
  2. Markussen v. MengedohtNebraska Supreme Court · 1937
  3. De Motte v. ArkellCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926
  4. Mazey v. LovelandSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
  5. Ellis v. McNeeseCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1930

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