Ablard v. Detroit United Railway

About half past 9 in the evening of June 20, 1902, Thomas Ablard, the plaintiff, was injured on Forest avenue, in the city of Detroit, by a collision between a street car and his moving van. After loading his van with furniture from a house on Mt. Elliott avenue, about half a block north of Forest avenue, plaintiff drove south to Forest avenue, turned west on that street, and drove on west, with the wheels of his van “straddling,” the north rail of the north track of defendant’s street railway on Forest avenue. When he had just passed Galster street, some 1,900 feet west of Mt. Elliott…