Sheldon v. Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad

Dallas Sheldon, a boy about ten years of age, was run over and killed at Wayne Junction, on the twenty-first day of July, 1883, by one of defendant’s trains, and the plaintiff, his father and administrator, brings this action to recover damages by reason of the killing of his son.

The accident occurred in front of the station-house, where a band of music was standing and playing, and which had caused to assemble quite a large crowd of people to hear the music, among whom was the young lad injured by the train. The crowd was composed mostly of an excursion party, who had just left the Michigan…