Michigan Supreme Court June 28, 1898 (Rodda v. City of Detroit)

Long, J.

This action is brought to recover damages for an injury received on a defective sidewalk. It appears, without contradiction, that the plaintiff, who resides in the city of Detroit, on the evening of May 35, 1895, between dusk and darkness, was passing eastward over the sidewalk on the south side of Hancock avenue, in company with a boy named Eipper.