Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Newton
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applied for mandamus to vacate an order granting a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMcGrath, J.
TMb is an application for a mandamus to compel respondent to set aside an order granting a new trial in the case of Henry H. Houghton against relator, pending in the Genesee circuit.
Houghton was injured while crossing the tracks of the railway company upon a highway, and brought case for negligence. Plaintiff was severely and permanently injured. He was sworn upon the trial, but after the commencement of the cross-examination was compelled, by reason of his enfeebled condition, to retire from the court-room; and being unable to return, on motion of defendant’s counsel, his testimony in chief…
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