Bowen v. Detroit City Railway Co.

The defendant is a corporation operating about eighteen miles of street railway in the city of Detroit. One of its lines is upon Woodward avenue, which consists of a double track. The ordinance under which it is permitted to run and operate its railway requires that it shall keep its track clear from snow. To do this expeditiously it uses Day’s improved scraper, which is so constructed as to force *497the snow accumulating on its tracks to the side thereof to a distance of about six feet, and attached to the scraper or snow-plow, as it is sometimes called, is a lever extending beyond about four…