Palmer v. Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan Railroad

This is an action against the defendant for personal injury to the plaintiff, received from a passing engine with tender attached, upon a street-crossing in the city of Stanton. It appears from the record in the case that the railroad, at the place where the injury occurred, runs north and south, and the street east and west. The plaintiff was driving a spirited team at the time, going west on the street with a sleigli-load of grain. On approaching the crossing he looked north upon the track, and saw the engine with the tender pass in that direction, and as he drove on, he kept a sharp…