Cavanagh v. Township of Riverside
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Missaukee; Chittenden, J. Case by Ethel Cavanagh against the township of River.side for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHookee, J.
The plaintiff, while riding with her husband in a lumber wagon, was thrown from the seat and injured by the dropping of the front wheels into a chuckhole in the highway. The wagon-box was filled with wood piled crosswise, and the seat was well to the front, so that plaintiff’s feet rested outside of the wagon, upon a board 3-J inches wide, spiked to the wagon-box at right . angles. The seat consisted of a board covered by two horse-blankets and a quilt, and was about 6 inches higher than the sides of the box. The highway crossed what had once been a swamp. A corduroy road was first…
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