Cartwright v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.

Cooley C. J.

This is an action for personal injury, and the plaintiff recovered in the circuit court. The onty questions that need to be considered are, first, whether there was any evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant to be submitted to the jury; and second, whether the evidence conclusively showed contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff.

The injury occurred December 28>1881. The plaintiff was a woman sixty years of age, and resided with her husband, who was still, older and rheumatic, at Davison, a country station about nine miles west of Flint. On the day named…