Legal Opinion

Lehman v. Eureka Iron & Steel Works

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided September 14, 1897PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error to Wayne; Carpenter, J. Case by Edward Lehman, an infant, by his next friend, against the Eureka Iron & Steel Works, for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant-brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtLong, C. J.

The defendant operates a manufacturing plant at the city of Wyandotte. To carry on that business it controls and uses cars, engines, etc., having a track from its works extending out to and along Eureka avenue. This track has been laid for many years along this public street, and is. connected with the tracks of the Michigan Central Railroad. The plaintiff, a boy about nine years of age, on May 28, 1892, was passing across this street. He, with another boy, a little older, had been across the track from their homes, and in going back the avenue was filled with freight cars. There was an…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Hargreaves v. DeaconMichigan Supreme Court · 1872
  2. Cooper v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Schindler v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1891
  4. East Saginaw City Railway Co. v. BohnMichigan Supreme Court · 1873
  5. Ecliff v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Knickerbocker v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1911
  2. Schleiger v. Northern Terminal Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1903
  3. Bridges v. DahlCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1939
  4. Davis v. Michigan Central RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1905
  5. Harris v. CrawleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1912

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