Knapp v. City of Detroit

This is an appeal in a personal injury case from a judgment entered on a directed verdict in favor of the defendants. On November 13, 1936, in the afternoon, plaintiff was a passenger on one of the streetcars operated by the defendant city of Detroit. The car was northbound on Joseph Campau avenue in the city of Hamtramek. Plaintiff alighted at a regular car stop, designated as a “safety zone,” which is merely a marked-off portion of the street next to the car tracks, in front of one of the entrances to the Dodge automobile plant. She had taken only two or three steps in a northeasterly…