Burt v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

Plaintiff, a boy eight years and four months old, possessed of all his faculties, bright and intelligent, familiar with the place and knowing the danger, attempted to cross the railroad tracks of defendant, and was struck and injured by a train.

The railroad tracks are on the line between the cities of Detroit and Hamtramck, and run north and south. Woodland street of Detroit ends at the right-of-way, and nearly opposite, and on the east side of the right-of-way, Woodland street of Hamtramck begins. The right-of-way occupied by several tracks between the two ends of the streets is…