O'Dea v. Michigan Central Railroad

The defendant has appealed from a judgment rendered against it on a charge of negligence. The plaintiff, a married woman of 55 years of age, and her brother, some years older, took defendant’s evening train, at Owosso for Henderson, the first station north of Owosso. According to her undisputed testimony the station (Henderson) was announced from the forward door of the coach, and as the train was slowing up the conductor entered, and the train stopped as he approached them. He did not take or ask for the tickets, but passed on, and the plaintiff then said to her brother, who, like herself,…