Fitzpatrick v. Michigan Central Railroad

This is an action to recover for personal injuries. The plaintiff was, on the 30th of Novem*195her, 1903, engaged in inspecting and loading lumber from the mill of Mershon-Schuette-Parker Company into a car of defendant company. The cars of defendant were placed upon a spur track on the northerly side of the mill of plaintiff’s employers, to whom the track belonged. The mill had eight doors on its northerly side, numbered consecutively, beginning at the westerly end. The mill floor was practically on a- level with the floor of cars, so that when cars were placed with their doors opposite the…