Burrman v. Grand Trunk Western Railway

Plaintiff, in November, 1901, sustained serious personal injury by being struck and run over by defendant’s work train at Swartz Creek, in this State. He was, with other workmen, engaged in making repairs to a switch on the railway tracks, and in crossing the south one of two of defendant’s tracks, constructed eight feet from each other, for the purpose of reaching a pile of *690splits, which were to be loaded upon a small car on the north track, was the last man to cross, was struck by a flat car, which, with the attached locomotive, was used in construction and had for some time been standing…