Siegel v. Detroit Cab Co.

Cass avenue in Detroit runs north and south, and is 50 feet in width from curb to curb. Henry street crosses it at right angles. There is a single street car track on it. The pavement was dry. Plaintiff’s decedent, while crossing Cass avenue from east to west, in a diagonal direction, a little distance from the cross-walk at the intersection, at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, was struck and injured in the left arm by a cab owned by defendant and driven towards the north on Cass avenue by one of its drivers. Blood poisoning set in, and he died about a week later. Plaintiff, his widow, as…