Ricketts v. Froehlich

At about 9 o’clock in the evening of January 31, 1918, plaintiff’s husband was run over and fatally injured by an automobile while standing in a safety zone on Gratiot avenue in the city of Detroit just east of Riopelle street on the north side of the Gratiot avenue car tracks waiting to take a street car. The automobile was recklessly driven at an excessive speed of over 25 miles an hour directly across the well defined safety zone near the middle of which deceased stood, knocking him down with its left front fender, both the left front and rear wheels passing over his body. After striking…