Hoover v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Rent; McDonald, J. Case, by Harry H. Hoover, as administrator of the estate of George L. Hoover, deceased, against the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company for the unlawful killing of plaintiff’s intestate. Judgment for defendant on a directed verdict. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
Plaintiff brought this action as administrator of his infant son, George L. Hoover, who, on June 18, 1912, wandered from his home upon defendant’s track and was struck by a passing train, receiving injuries of which he died the following day. He was then 25 months of age.
The accident occurred about a mile east of the Plain-field Avenue station, in the city of. Grand Rapids, near the east line of an alley which runs north and south *316just west of and parallel with. Benson street, upon which his parents resided, in the sixth house south of the track, on the west side. On leaving the station the…
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