Baker v. Delano

The defendants, as receivers of the Wabash Railroad Company, operate cars, engines, and trains over the company’s double tracks in the city of Detroit in an easterly and westerly direction between West Jefferson avenue and the Detroit river. The tracks cross Twenty-Fourth street, which runs in a northerly and southerly direction, and which crosses Lafayette boulevard and Fort street and West Jefferson avenue and these railway tracks in the order named, and extends to the Detroit river, where there were a dock and slip at the foot of the street.

John D. Baker, the plaintiff’s decedent, on…