Fehnrich ex rel. Fehnrich v. Michigan Central Railroad

The plaintiff, a boy about 14 years of age when the accident happened, brought this suit to recover damages for injuries received by him while upon defendant’s track in a public street in the city of Jackson. The court took the case from the jury on the ground of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff.

The injury occurred September 19, 1887. The boy *608could not speak or understand English very well, having arrived in this country from Germany in the latter part of July, 1887. He was 11 years of age in June of that year.' He was living with his uncle, and had started to go to his place of…