Apsey v. Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad

At Meridian station, in Ingham county, where the railroad runs nearly east and west, there is a highway crossing the track, running north and south. About 10 o’clock in the forenoon of July 7, 1888, an east-bound train that did did not stop at the station passed over the highway. A man named James Apsey was riding in a top buggy drawn by a single horse along the highway, coming from the south of the track towards the north. With him was his son, Willie, aged 11 years. They collided with tjie passing train, killing them both instantly. For the death of the son, the plaintiff, who is his…