Mitchell v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ingham. (Gridley, J.) Case. .Defendant brings error. A trainman’s announcement of a station does not amount to an invitation to aligbt from tbe train: Bridges v. N. L. R. W. Co. L. E. 6 Q. B. 377: 7 IÍ.
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Error to Ingham. (Gridley, J.) Case. .Defendant brings error. A trainman’s announcement of a station does not amount to an invitation to aligbt from tbe train: Bridges v. N. L. R. W. Co. L. E. 6 Q. B. 377: 7 IÍ. L. 213; Weller v. R. W. Co. L. E. 9 C. P. 126 ; Cookie v. L. & 8. E. R. W. Co. L. E. 5 C. P. 457; Lewis v. L. C. da B. R. W. Co. L. E. 9 Q. B. 66; it is only a notice that a train is approaching a station, and to the passengers to be getting themselves ready to alight when the station is reached: Weller v. L. B. & 8. C. Ry. Co. L. E. 9 0. P. 126 ; one who has, by his own negligence,…
1Opinion of the CourtCaMpbbll, J.
Plaintiff sued for a personal injury which befell her on leaving a train at the Chicago junction of defendant with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Eailroad, three miles east of Lansing. She had been traveling on defendant’s road with a ticket which went to Lansing from Chicago, and had a coupon attached to take her on the other road from Lansing to Fowlerville.- As the ordinary stoppage at the depot of defendant’s road in Lansing would make it necessary for her to cross over a considerable distance to the other station in Lansing, the conductor offered to take her to the junction where the…
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