Davis v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff lived in the village of Fowlerville. The morning of January 7, 1926, about daybreak, he started to drive in a Ford coupé to his farm. Near his home, and in the village, his way brought him to the highway crossing of defendant’s railroad tracks. He was driving with the car lights on. When he reached, a point about 40 feet from the railroad crossing he stopped his car and looked and listened. At that point he could not view the railroad tracks to the east because of an elevator, box car, and flag shanty. Hearing no train, he…