Jones v. City of Lansing

On Sunday evening about 9:30, April 12,1931, Arthur L. Jones, accompanied by his six-year old daughter, Beverly Hazel Jones, and others, was returning to his home at Three Rivers, Michigan. He was driving in a westerly direction on East Michigan avenue in the city of Lansing, when he approached the railroad tracks of the Pere Marquette and Michigan Central railroads running north and south across East Michigan avenue at right angles. For the convenience and safety of pedestrians and particularly the general public who use street car service, the city of Lansing had erected a safety island or…