Detwiler v. City of Lansing

Plaintiff sued and recovered for injuries received from the falling of a bridge claimed to be in Wall street, in the city of Lansing. Numerous errors were originally assigned, but all are now abandoned excepting those which relate to the rulings of the circuit judge hereinafter specifically referred to.

The testimony tended to show that Wall street was extended across a mill-race many years ago, to connect with a narrow street called “Pace Street," on the west bank of the canal; that about the year 1854 a bridge across this canal was constructed, substantially across the center of the street,…