Steger v. Blanchard

(after stating the facts, for reversal). Our text was written by Mr. Justice Cooley. We affirmed it most recently in Normand v. Thomas Theatre Corporation, 349 Mich 50, 59, as follows:

“As we have previously seen (Clark v. Shefferly, 346 Mich 332) the question of contributory negligence is usually judged, not alone by what the plaintiff did or did not do, but also by the conjoining facts pertaining to what in the way of legal duty the plaintiff had a right to expect of the defendant.”

The question before us, determinable as it should be from favorable-to-plaintiff view of the proof and…