Luttenton v. Detroit, Jackson & Chicago Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s automobile, a three-passenger Abbott-Detroit, while being driven by his brother Frank from Detroit to Jackson, was struck by one of defendant’s interurban cars on Congress street, in the city of Ypsilanti, about 2 o’clock in the afternoon of May 9, 1915. There were three persons in the automobile, Frank, the driver, his brother, Charles R., and one Charles M. Holland. Near the place of the collision, defendant’s railway crosses the Michigan Central railroad tracks on an overhead *23bridge of truss construction. This bridge, in order to give the necessary clearance, is…