Rosencranz v. Michigan Central Railroad

Four parallel tracks of defendant railroad company cross a private roadway leading from a public highway to a mine of the Robert Gage Coal Company in Saginaw county. This roadway has been used many years by miners in going to and from the mine. May 13, 1925, at about 8 o’clock in the forenoon, plaintiff, a miner, had been to the mine and found that water prevented him from, working that day, and, while using the private roadway to go home, his automobile was struck at the railroad crossing by a locomotive backing over the south track. When plaintiff was near the north track he stopped his…