Wilkinson v. Detroit Steel & Spring Works

This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury to plaintiff, caused by the negligence of the defendant. In the early part of the year 1882 the defendant, which is a corporation, finished the construction of a large mill for rolling iron and steel, located at, the intersection of Indian avenue and the “ Chicago' Road,” so called, then in the township of Springwells, a suburb of the city of Detroit. It was covered with a slate roof, the center portion of which, nearly the whole length of the building, was raised above the other portion about 10 feet, forming what is called a “…