Marchand v. Russell

A trunk line highway, M-28, also known as U. S.-41, runs through the village of Champion, in the county of Marquette, approximately from east to west. It is intersected near the railroad depot by a road running from the southwest to the northeast. About four o’clock in the afternoon of January 27, 1930, the plaintiff, driving a horse attached to a sled, approached the trunk line highway on the road intersecting it from the southwest. He was on his way from the postoffi.ce to the depot with the mail. He stopped, and, seeing nothing upon the highway, proceeded to cross, and, before reaching a…