Phillips v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

This action is brought to recover damages for an injury to the plaintiff by a passenger train at a highway crossing on the defendant’s road. On Sunday, June 4, 1893, a washout had occurred on the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway, between Lansing and Durand, so that the through passenger train from Chicago eastward was taken from Lansing to Ionia, thence eastward to Du-rand, over the defendant’s road, passing through the village of Muir, where the accident happened. The train passed the station at Muir, without stopping, a little past noon, running at a rapid rate of speed, the witnesses varying…