Spangler v. Saginaw Valley Traction Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Saginaw; Gage (Chauncey H.), J. Case by Sarah Spangler against the Saginaw Valley Traction Company for personal injuries. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Defendant operates a street railway on Warren avenue in Saginaw.
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Error to Saginaw; Gage (Chauncey H.), J. Case by Sarah Spangler against the Saginaw Valley Traction Company for personal injuries. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Defendant operates a street railway on Warren avenue in Saginaw. On the evening of August 17, 1906, plaintiff alighted from a south-bound car at the intersection of Warren avenue and Hoyt street, on the south side of Hoyt and west side of the car, intending to proceed to the east across Warren avenue to her home on the south side of Hoyt street. During that day, in preparing to repave the street between…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
{after stating the facts). As the contention of plaintiff in error is understood, it is that the duty' of the railway company, the passenger having alighted safely, was a duty to be measured without reference to the relation of carrier and passenger; that it owed to plaintiff, when she was injured, no other or different duty than if she had been a pedestrian who was attempting to cross the street at the same place.
The rule that the relation of carrier and passenger does not cease at the moment the passenger alights from the carrier’s vehicle, at the point of destination, but continues until…
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