Lewis v. Flint & Pere Marquette Ry Co.

Action to recover damages for a personal injury. The facts as they appeared on the trial were as follows :

The plaintiff resides in the township of Huron, a few miles east of Belden station on the road of defendant. He was at Wayne station on the evening of January 12, 1883, awaiting the train which was to go south past Belden in the night. The train left Wayne at 3:05 in the morning of the 13th, and *57he procured his ticket and took passage for Belden, where the train was due at 3:30. «The night was dark, cold and wet. The train stopped when “Belden” was called, and plaintiff got off. Belden…