BURGDORF v. HOLME-SHAW

Docket No. 15, Calendar No. 47,317.

356 Mich. 45 (1959)

96 N.W.2d 164

BURGDORF v. HOLME-SHAW.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doozan, Scorsone & Trogan, for plaintiff.

W. Vincent Nash, City Attorney, and William A. Boos, Jr., Assistant City Attorney, for defendant City of Saginaw.


DETHMERS, C.J.

Plaintiff appeals from judgment non obstante veredicto for defendant city. He sued for damages resulting from injuries sustained when he rode, after dark on a bicycle, into a clothesline stretched across a public sidewalk.

Under CL 1948, § 242.1 (Stat Ann § 9.591), defendant city is liable to pay just damages to any person injured by reason of its neglect to keep its sidewalk in condition reasonably safe for travel.

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