Waterstradt v. Lanyon Dock Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent lived at Walled Lake, Oakland county, and was employed in the' city of Detroit. On the morning of December 8, 1938, he left home at about 5:30 a. m. to drive to his work, traveling by way of Northwestern high way which runs in a northwesterly-southeasterly direction at its point of intersection with Thirteen Mile road in Oakland county. Several hundred feet northerly from said intersection, the highway starts downgrade and the incline continues for a considerable distance beyond the intersection.

The testimony shows ,that near the low point in the grade, deceased’s car…