Rouse v. Detroit Electric Railway

This action is brought to recover damages for the death of Henry Rouse, occasioned by the claimed negligence of the defendant. It appears that Rouse, plaintiff’s intestate, a teamster, was riding with his son-in-law, one Garlick, also a teamster, in an ordinary dirt wagon, along Oakland avenue, in the city of Detroit, on the night of September 6, 1898. The men had been some eight miles out in the country, and about 8 o’clock that night, in returning, they drove along Oakland avenue. The defendant operates a double-track street railway on this avenue. Its cars in going north pass over the east…