Kwiotkowski v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.

March 20, 1886, Bronistow Kwiotkowski was killed by being struck by a locomotive upon defendant’s track at a railroad crossing upon St. Joseph street, in the city of Detroit.

The plaintiff, his widow and administratrix, brought suit in the circuit court for Wayne county to recover damages for the loss of her husband, alleging that it' was occasioned by the negligent action of the defendant’s employés in their failure to ring a bell at the crossing, and in the running of the train at a rate ‘of speed prohibited by the ordinances of the city of Detroit, and also in running at a higher rate of…