Staunton v. City of Detroit

These cases were tried together in circuit court and on stipulation the appeals have been consolidated. Plaintiffs’ causes of action arose from a traffic accident occurring in the city of Detroit on the 26th of November, 1946, about 6 o’clock in the evening. At the time the plaintiffs Mary Staunton and Mary Madeline, her 6-year-old daughter, were undertaking to cross the paved portion of Joy road at or near the intersection of that highway with Rutland avenue. It was their claim on the trial that they were struck and injured by a bus owned and operated by the defendant, and that the accident…