Rice v. Michigan Railway Co.

The plaintiff, a practicing physician residing in Owosso, took defendant’s car on the evening of February 16, 1917, to visit a patient several miles distant. About eight o’clock, he returned to the point where defendant’s road crosses the highway known as the Grand River road, where a small waiting room, with platform in front, had been theretofore constructed. He knew that a through car on defendant’s line would pass there about that hour, and that it would' stop for passengers on being signaled. It is his claim that as the car approached the crossing from the south, and when about 85 rods…