Heintzelman v. Pennsylvania Railroad

On August 31, 1930, Robert Heintzelman, plaintiff, was returning from a dance at Alpine, Michigan, in company with a young lady. In order to reach his farm home, he drove his old Model “T” Ford car through Grand Rapids, with whose streets he was not very familiar. Shortly after midnight he was driving in an easterly direction along the right or southerly side of Goodrich street, and had reached a point at which the street is traversed for a distance of 583 feet by a series of 27 tracks belonging to various railroads, and within a few blocks from the depot located on another street. After…