Frye v. City of Detroit

The night of October 17,1927, Domenic Tata, plaintiff’s decedent, was standing in a safety-zone in Hamilton avenue in the city of Detroit, waiting for a street car. An automobile struck and threw him upon the street car track where he lay-unconscious, with blood flowing from, cuts in his head. While so lying on the track, the fender of a street car picked him up, carried him some distance before the car stopped, and, when released, it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the left leg just above the ankle and his head and face were crushed. He moved his left leg and lips and…