Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 59Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Liable for negligent failure 80 to do - Question of such negligent failure , always for the jury- Condition of the elements and dryness of season necessarily enter into its consideration - How . Stat . § 3378 construed - Bur- den of ...
... Liable for negligent failure 80 to do - Question of such negligent failure , always for the jury- Condition of the elements and dryness of season necessarily enter into its consideration - How . Stat . § 3378 construed - Bur- den of ...
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... liable to early depreciation , to what extent the owner has increased it , and whether he intends to retain it within the limits of the State . These , and all the other considerations which a careful , prudent man would naturally give ...
... liable to early depreciation , to what extent the owner has increased it , and whether he intends to retain it within the limits of the State . These , and all the other considerations which a careful , prudent man would naturally give ...
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... liable to be overflowed by freshets in the spring and fall , but it was usually dry enough to produce a very fair quality of the coarser kinds of hay , such as blue joint , red top , and marsh hay , in the summer season ; that a large ...
... liable to be overflowed by freshets in the spring and fall , but it was usually dry enough to produce a very fair quality of the coarser kinds of hay , such as blue joint , red top , and marsh hay , in the summer season ; that a large ...
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... liable for damages resulting from defective sidewalks . Held , that plaintiff could not recover . The statute under which suit is brought does not give a right of action against a municipality for not con- structing cross - walks , and ...
... liable for damages resulting from defective sidewalks . Held , that plaintiff could not recover . The statute under which suit is brought does not give a right of action against a municipality for not con- structing cross - walks , and ...
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... liable in an action for damages for a defect therein . It would seem from O'Niel v . City of Detroit , 50 Mich . 133 , that the place where the accident occurred would not be a part of the sidewalk , but , if a cross- walk had existed ...
... liable in an action for damages for a defect therein . It would seem from O'Niel v . City of Detroit , 50 Mich . 133 , that the place where the accident occurred would not be a part of the sidewalk , but , if a cross- walk had existed ...
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