Reed v. City of Detroit

The plaintiff, accompanied by her husband, son, and a niece, arrived in Detroit by boat September 30, 1890, from her home in Sand Beach, to visit friends living in Hamtramck. They took the Chene-street car, and rode to the terminus of the city limits. They alighted from the car, and, there being no sidewalk, they walked in the middle of the street. At the intersection of Ohene street and the Boulevard, they crossed a culvert made of plank. There was a hole through one of the planks, into which the plaintiff stepped, and was injured. The negligence alleged is that the culvert was “defective,…