Spaven v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by John Spaven against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company for personal injuries. From a judgment for defendants on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
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Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by John Spaven against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company for personal injuries. From a judgment for defendants on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error. At the time of the accident upon which this suit is based, and for years prior thereto, the defendant companies operated jointly a double-track railroad extending from the Brush-street depot, in the city of Detroit, to Dequindre street, north on Dequindre street to a point about 200 feet north of Ferry avenue, where the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). There is no evidence to show any liability on the part of the defendant the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. It had provided a station room and platform for those who had occasion to depart from and to enter its trains at Ferry avenue. In doing this it had done its full duty. Sturgis v. Railway Co., 72 Mich. 619 (40 N. W. 914); Michigan Cent. R. Co. v. Coleman, 28 Mich. 452. The rear car stopped just opposite this platform. It extended no invitation to plaintiff or any one else to walk along the other track, or to use it as a platform for plaintiff or…
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- Michigan, Central Railroad v. ColemanMichigan Supreme Court · 1874
- Trudell v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1901
- Kansas City, Ft. S. & M. R. Co. v. CookCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
- Sturgis v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1888
- Bresnahan v. Michigan Central RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1882
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