Hickey v. Detroit United Railway

On July 4, 1915, plaintiff’s intestate, John P. Hickey, a man about 60 years of age, was driving an automobile in a southerly direction along Twelfth street in the city of Detroit, and while attempting to -cross the tracks of the defendant company on Porter street, was struck by one of defendant’s street cars and received injuries from which he died a short time afterwards.

The track on Porter street is a single track, over which the Sherman-street cars travel in a westerly direction. Ordinarily no other cars use this portion of the track, but on the day of the accident the Baker-street cars,…