Legal Opinion

Fulton Iron & Engine Works v. Township of Kimball

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided December 20, 1883PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Error to St. Clair. (Stevens, J.) Case. Plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.

Plaintiff sued defendant for injury to a steam threshing engine, caused by the breaking down of part of a bridge over which it was passing. The jury found for defendant, and plaintiff complains of error in the rulings.

The whole circumstances resemble very closely, even to the details of the accident, those which were presented in Perkins v. Medina 48 Mich. 67. Several of the questions are mere repetitions of those raised in that case, and the court below so considered them, and decided in accordance with the views there expressed. We need not, therefore, go further than to examine how far…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Township of Medina v. PerkinsMichigan Supreme Court · 1882

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Hayes v. ColemanMichigan Supreme Court · 1953
  2. Hawthorne v. Eckerson Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1935
  3. Judis v. Borg-Warner CorporationMichigan Supreme Court · 1954
  4. Langworthy v. Township of GreenMichigan Supreme Court · 1891
  5. Lombar v. Village (Mich. 5-8-1891)Michigan Supreme Court · 1891

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