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

Plaintiff, when 6 years and 10 months old, went, with some other children, into the yard of the defendant railway companies in the city of Detroit in which were standing freight and flat cars. He, with the other children, was playing on -or around a flat car. A switch engine backed down upon the siding, and moved the car under or upon which the plaintiff was playing. In some way not apparent plaintiff got under a wheel and had his arm crushed. For this injury plaintiff brought suit, alleging in his declaration that the defendants had knowledge of his presence, and that it was their duty to…