Noe v. Rapid Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Macomb; Law, J., presiding. Case by Frank Noe against tbe Rapid Railway Company for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1DissentHooker, C. J.
The defendant is a suburban railway company, and its road is a trolley road constructed along a highway. The plaintiff, a mason, was employed in constructing an addition to its power house, for which he received, as compensation, 40 cents an hour for the time that he worked, and free transportation by defendant’s cars to and from his home, some miles away from the place where he worked. He was injured by reason of the derailment of a car near a switch, and recovered a judgment, upon which the defendant has brought error.
The plaintiff’s claim is that his car was derailed, by reason of a…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Smethurst v. Proprietors of Independent Congregational Church in Barton SquareMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Bowen v. . New York Central Railroad Company.New York Court of Appeals · 1858
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