Clark v. Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Arenac; Sharpe, J. Case by Nettie M. Clark, administratrix of the estate of Milton Stocum, deceased, against the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s decedent. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
Four young persons, two boys and two girls, were drowned- in Saginaw Bay June 17, 1912. They were Milton Stocum, 16 years old, Ion Lincoln, Nellie Salmon, and Eva Ouilette, also minors. They were riding in a rowboat which belonged to and had been hired of the defendant at Linwood Park, a resort owned and operated by defendant, to which in summer it ran daily excursion trains. Those named and others, with their teachers, went to the park on one of defendant’s trains for a school picnic. The boys had twice before been out upon the waters of the bay in the boat, the second time with two other…
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- Lincoln v. Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1914
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