Dehring v. Comstock

Mrs. Dehring sued defendants for personal injury caused by her being struck by a falling bundle or bale of bay, while she was passing defendants* barn.

*155The barn stands facing a public street in Alpena, and is close to the sidewalk. While a wagon, partly loaded with bales of hay, was standing, backed up, close to or partially over the sidewalk, waiting for its load, two men were engaged in the loft, getting the bundles ready. One rolled them forward from the back of- the loft, which was not very deep, and of the ordinary height of a barn loft from the ground, and the other put them out through…