Coops v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of TJhlenberg, recovered a judgment in the superior court of Detroit for $5,287, as damages for killing his intestate.

TThlenberg at the time of his death, and for some time previous thereto, was employed by the Peninsular Car Company at Detroit to make brakes at one of its shops. When he was killed he had crawled between the wheels of a truck under the hind car, going in at the side of the car. The wheels passed over and crushed him.

The company was engaged in the manufacture of freight cars, and had its grounds and shops contiguous to the tracks *449of…