Legal Opinion

Selby v. Detroit Railway

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 24, 1905No. Docket No. 20PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Case by Marion Selby against the Detroit Railway for personal injuries. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.

This case is before us for the second time. See 122 Mich. 311. A full statement of the facts here is therefore not essential. The theory of the plaintiff and of the defendant is there stated. We there declared the law of the case in the following language:

“ If the claim of the plaintiff was true that she had been carried past the place where she desired to alight, and the car was stopped farther on by the conductor to enable her to alight, then it was negligence on the part of the company to start the car while she was in the act of stepping from the car to the pavement.”

The plaintiff had…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Jackson v. Grand Avenue Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
  2. North Birmingham Street Railway Co. v. CalderwoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
  3. Selby v. Detroit RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
  4. Poole v. Consolidated Street Railway Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1894
  5. Nichols v. Middlesex RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Beattie v. Detroit United RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Reese v. Detroit United RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1910
  3. Ottinger v. Detroit United RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1911

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