Hamilton v. Michigan Central Railroad

The defendant’s passenger train left the track near Monroe, Mich., resulting in a bad wreck, and injuring one or more of its passengers, one of whom recovered a verdict, and the cáse was reviewed by this court. The outline of the circumstances can be found in the opinion filed in that case. See Whipple v. Michigan Cent. R. Co., 130 Mich. 460 (90 N. W. 287). The plaintiff in the present case was the engineer of the train, and he recovered a substantial verdict and judgment, from which both parties have appealed; defendant’s counsel contending that the court erred in refusing to direct a…