Eterna v. Dodge

A motor truck, owned by the defendant and driven by an employee at his boat works, ran over and badly injured the plaintiff, a boy five years of age, at the intersection of Kercheval and Meldrum avenues, in the city of Detroit, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of December 29, 1923. The testimony submitted by plaintiff tended to prove that the boy, with several other older children, started to cross Kercheval avenue at the east side of Meldrum; that, when nearly half way across, he stopped near the south rail of one of the street car tracks on Kercheval, and that the truck, driven at a speed…