Ommen v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo; Weimer, J. Case by Jill Ommen, administrator of the estate of Ludwig Ommen, deceased, against the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s decedent. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, J.
The families of John Ommen and of his neighbor, George Suntken, who lived on their farms near Colfax, in Illinois, left their homes on the morning of September 8,1917, in two automobiles, an Overland and a Ford, for the purpose of motoring to Sun-field, Michigan, to pay a visit to the family of Jill Ommen, a brother of John Ommen. The course of their travels led them through the village of School-craft, in Kalamazoo county, in this State, which village they approached from the south along Grand or Main street, so called, shortly before 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, September 9th.…
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