Hales v. Michigan Cent. R.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John M. Killits, Judge. Action by James Hales, as administrator of the estate of James K. Myers, against the Michigan Central Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Per curiam
This was an action for personal injuries resulting in the death of plaintiff’s decedent, Myers. At the close of the evidence offered by plaintiff, on motion of defendant, a verdict was directed and judgment entered in its favor; and the case is prosecuted here on error.
Myers received his injuries on the evening of February 15, 1908, while in the employ as motorman of an electric street railroad company and engaged in operating one of its cars across the main track of the defendant at a street crossing in Eucas county; the electric car being struck by a passenger engine (with train) of…
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