Holmes v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

Plaintiff brought this suit, as administrator of the estate of Asa Mitchell, to recover damages for injuries received by Mr. Mitchell on the 10th day of June, 1909, which caused his death a few hours later through being run over by the defendant’s passenger train, while decedent was a trespasser upon the railroad *634track at a point 1,500 feet west of the first highway east of Durand. Asa Mitchell and Fred Snaggs, residents of the village of Fenton, Genesee county, which at the time in question was in a local-option county, came to the village of Durand, which at that time was a place where…