Shufelt v. Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad

The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for injuries occasioned by a collision of the defendant’s passenger train with the plaintiff’s team, which at the time was being driven by plaintiff’s wife. The declaration avers that the train was running at an unusual rate of speed; that the defendant had caused wood to be piled near the track in such manner as to ■obscure the view of the train as it was approaching the crossing; and that the engineer of the train, upon approaching the crossing, failed to give the statutory signals by ringing the bell and blowing the whistle. At the…