Dewey v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milawaukee Railway Co.

October 21, 1890, the defendant received at Holly from the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company a car loaded with lumber, for the purpose of transporting it to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Junction, in Wayne county, at which point it was to be placed upon the line of the Wabash transfer track. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a brakeman, and serving on the train in that capacity. He had worked for the company about one year. The train reached the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Junction about 2 o’clock in the morning, and the car was run upoij the Wabash transfer…