Was Hurt In A Gravel Pit

WAS HURT IN A GRAVEL PIT

AND WANTS $10,000 DAMAGES FROM THE CENTRAL

Willis A. Hooker, a Section Hand Near Grass Lake, Sues in Washtenaw Circuit

Wilis A. Hooker has commenced a suit in the circuit court against the Michigan Central for $10,000 damages. His bill alleges that on August 19, he was employed as a section hand and was in pursuance to order in a gravel pit west of Grass Lake in Jackson county, loading gravel cars. The gravel pit was dug out about 20 feet below the surface and the cars ran down into it on a spur track with a steep incline. The men working in the bottom of the pit could not see the ears on the main track and 10 cars were shunted, Hooker claims, down this incline at a high rate, crushing the cars already there and knocking the complainant down and seriously injuring him $10,000 worth, he says. A. J. Sawyer & Son brought the case.

In the early days of Michigan the supreme court used to meet each year at Ann Arbor. Under the constitution of 1835, the court met at Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo. Under the statutes of 1838, two terms were held each year in Ann Arbor, two in Detroit, one in Kalamazoo and one in Pontiac This lasted until 1846, since which time Ann Arbor has not had a session of the supreme court in the city.