Carver v. Detroit & Saline Plank-road Co.

The defendant in this case is a corporation organized under a charter and the general plank-road act of 1848. See Laws of 1848, p. 110; How. Stat. p. 914. Its road is constructed on the highway from Detroit to Saline. This highway has been in existence and used more than 40 years, and was so used many years before the defendant’s plank-road was constructed. A part of defendant’s road runs along and near the bank of the River Rouge. The traveled part of the road is here about 25 feet wide, lying b itween the Michigan Central Railroad track and the south bank of the river, which is from 20 to…