Butts v. City of Eaton Rapids
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Case by Mary E. Butts against the city of Eaton Rapids for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
This action is brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff which she claims to have received by stepping upon a broken board, or by catching her foot in a broken plank, causing her to fall. The place where the accident is claimed to have occurred is described as being upon the north side of East Hamlin street, in front of property owned by D. B. Hosier. The declaration charges that this walk in front of these premises had been for six months in a broken, dangerous, and unsafe condition, the planks rotten, broken, loosened, and displaced ; that the stringers had become…
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