Cooper v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

On a bright, cold morning in January, 1886, Betsey M. Kisler, a little girl of 11 years of age, started for school in the village of White Pigeon. She was residing with her grandmother, whose house was situated south of defendant’s railroad. The school-house was on the north side of such railroad, and a considerable distance therefrom.

Kalamazoo street is the main thoroughfare crossing defendant’s road in the village of White Pigeon, over which those who reside south of the road pass in reaching the main part of the village. Defendant’s road runs nearly east and west at this point, curving…