City of Detroit v. Blackeby
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action on tbe case brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne, by William Blackeby and Hannah Blackeby, against the city qf Detroit, for an injury to Mrs. Blackeby, occasioned by a defective crosswalk. The defendant pleaded the general issue.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action on tbe case brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne, by William Blackeby and Hannah Blackeby, against the city qf Detroit, for an injury to Mrs. Blackeby, occasioned by a defective crosswalk. The defendant pleaded the general issue. The bill of exceptions states that the plaintiffs’ evidence tended to show the following facts, viz: That the plaintiffs were husband and wife; that on the thirteenth day of December, 1868, the plaintiff, Hannah Blackeby, who is about sixty years of age, was passing along Michigan avenue, in the city of…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
The principal question in this case is whether the city of Detroit is liable to a private action by an injured party, for neglect to keep a cross-walk in repair. The other questions involve an inquiry into the circumstances which would go to modify any such liability in the present case.
*106There has been, but one case in this State, decided by this Court, where the claim for damages arose purely out of a neglect to repair. In Dewey v. The City of Detroit, 15 Mich. R., 307, such a suit was brought, but it did not ■call for a decision upon the main question. In Township of Niles v.…
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