Burke v. County of Washtenaw

This is an action against the county of Washtenaw to recover damages for personal injuries, sustained by plaintiff the evening of December 3, 1939, when his automobile collided with a tree while he was driving east over the Washtenaw county paved highway known as the Cavanaugh Lake road. The tree, with three others, stood in an uninclosed parkway, which divided the highway at that point, with paved passageways on each side thereof. Plaintiff was driving his car at a speed of 30 to 35 miles an hour, and claims that he did not see the tree which stood in the point of the parkway facing the…