Walsh v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad

The essential circumstances of this case, taken exclusively from plaintiff’s brief-submitted statement, disclose that plaintiff’s decedent drove his eastbound automobile into the side of defendant’s southwesterly bound freight train, striking the 31st car thereof, and that he came thus to his death. The collision occurred at grade on Fifteen Mile road, some 500 feet west of railroad-paralleling highway M-97, during the nighttime. It and the events leading thereto were not witnessed, save only as to the decedent, and the question whether defendant was shown as having been actionably negligent…