Pahlan v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

At Ovid station the defendant’s railroad •consists of three tracks, there being two sidings north of the main track. Upon the north side of the northernmost track there was a coal-bin, which was erected, some years before the occurrence giving rise to this action, by the Ovid Buggy Company, to receive coal shipped over the defendant’s road. At the time of the accident, the side of the bin next the track overhung 8 inches at a height of *2346 feet, according to the testimony of one of the plaintiff’s-witnesses, who said that he measured it. He testified that the distance between the top of the…