Sterling v. City of Detroit

Shortly before 8 p. m., between daylight and dark, June 30, 1898, plaintiff’s intestate, Henry *24C. Sterling, drove from an alley, between Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third streets, onto Howard street, in the city of Detroit. At that time the city was repaving Howard street, and for that purpose had removed the former pavement. Neither barricades nor lights were placed to guard or mark the excavation at the outlet of the alley in which plaintiff’s intestate was driving. As he drove onto Howard street, the wagon dropped down about two feet into the new excavation, and he was thrown therefrom and…