Walsh v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Brown, J. Case by Ruth C. Walsh, as administratrix of the estate of Edward M. Walsh, deceased, against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company for the unlawful killing of plaintiff’s intestate. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, J.
(after stating the facts). There are 29 assignments of error, and the one which is chiefly argued, and upon which principal reliance seems to be based for a reversal of this case, is that the trial judge erred in denying defendant’s motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is contrary to the weight of the evidence produced on the trial of said cause, and at variance with the great preponderance of the evidence. A consideration of this assignment of error has necessitated a careful study of the record, and it resolves itself finally into the question whether the testimony of the…
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