Watroba v. City of Detroit

The accident out of which this case arose occurred on Junction avenue in the city of Detroit about 5 o’clock in the afternoon of June 4,1948. The street in question is 28 feet in width from curb to curb. A streetcar track is located in the center, on which cars are operated only in a northerly direction.

Immediately prior to the accident plaintiff, then 12 years of age, alighted from a northbound streetcar on which he had been a passenger. He waited for the car to continue its course, and then started across the track in a westerly direction. He was at the time carrying a sack or bundle. It is…