Baader v. Detroit, Jackson & Chicago Railway Co.

The plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages resulting from the death of her husband, who was instantly killed in a collision with one of the defendant’s freight trains at a highway crossing in the village of Michigan Center, Jackson county, Michigan, on the 2d day of November, 1921. The main street of the village is a graveled highway extending east and west parallel with the defendant’s track on the north. The accident took place at a point where a crossroad running north from the east and west highway passes over the railroad right of way. At this point the distance between the south…