Bresnahan v. Michigan Central Railroad

The plaintiff brought this action to charge the railroad company for causing the death of her intestate by negligently running over him with one of its engines between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, a little east of Grand Trunk Junction. The trial judge directed a verdict for the company and the plaintiff alleged error.

One Brooks had contracted with the defendant to lay. water-pipe along its right of way from the river to the shops at Grand Trunk Junction. In carrying on this job Brooks had several companies of men at work upon it and the plaintiff’s intestate belonged to one of these…