Darmstaetter v. Moynahan

Graves, J.,

The plaintiff in error owned and occupied certain premises in Detroit upon which was an ice-house. Desiring t# fill this house with ice, he obtained a license from the city to incumber the public street passing the premises, for the accomplishment of that object. He then hired one Kehl to fill the house, and agreed to pay him therefor two dollars and fifty cents per cord. Kehl in doing this work, left a pile of blocks and fragments of ice (covered with snow), of considerable size, and extending from the premises from six to nine feet out into the street. The defendant in *189error,…