McGee v. Consolidated Street Railway Co.

Plaintiff brought suit-to recover damages for the loss of a foot, claiming it was occasioned by the negligent act of the defendant street-railway company in running one of its electric cars over him. The accident occurred at the intersection of South Division street and Fifth avenue, in the city of Grand Rapids, while plaintiff was attempting to cross the company's tracks, in the dusk of a dark and wet evening, on November 26, 1892. The defendant has parallel double tracks on South Division street, which is fiat and level where it crosses Fifth avenue at right angles. The company runs its…