Keating v. Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad

The plaintiff, on the 24th of September, 1891, became a passenger on an accommodation train ■of defendant. The train was made up by attaching several ■cars loaded with logs to the train, in front of the passenger •car, which was at the rear end. While the train was passing over a switch a few miles from where plaintiff got aboard, the car in which the plaintiff was riding was derailed. 'The end of one of the rails crushed up through the- bottom of the passenger car, striking the plaintiff in the breast, breaking his ribs, injuring his lungs and spine; then passed up through the top of the…