Wormsdorf v. Detroit City Railway Co.

This action was brought to recover damages arising from an injury to plaintiff while riding upon a street-car.

The negligence of the defendant was alleged to have consisted in neglecting to furnish proper and safe brakes and appliances for slacking the speed of cars in going a down grade, or for stopping a car, and in wrongfully and negligently furnishing and providing a braking apparatus with a weak, cracked, and defective connecting rod, which was utterly inadequate, unsafe, and positively dangerous to life and limb; that the rod was partly cracked and broken, and ■its situation and location…