Wilkins v. City of Flint

The defendant has appealed from a judgment of $8,000 in favor of a woman who claims to have received severe and permanent injuries from a fall upon a defective sidewalk. The sidewalk was of plank laid upon four-inch stringers, and it is plaintiff’s claim that the plank had been removed for a space of some feet, and that while walking upon the'walk, the night being dark, she stepped off from the plank unexpectedly, going down from four to six inches, and that, turning her ankle, she fell upon the ground, and is now bedridden with paralysis, from which it is unlikely that she will ever recover,…