Sarazin v. Johnson Creamery, Inc.

These are consolidated suits for negligence, arising from a collision with defendant’s motor truck of a bicycle ridden by plaintiff Charles Sarazin, Jr.

In the late morning of August 29, 1956, Charles, then 7 years of age, was riding a borrowed bicycle southerly, on a sidewalk, in Ecorse. Defendant’s milk truck was proceeding easterly in an alley, approaching the intersection of the alley with the sidewalk. The boy was riding as indicated, toward the alley. The truck driver testified that he stopped short of the sidewalk; looked to his left as far as the obstructed view allowed (some 15 feet);…