Parsons v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Bay; Coumans, J. Case by Amos J. Parsons, administrator of the estate of Verne Oscar Parsons, deceased, against the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Company for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s decedent. Judgment for defendant on a directed verdict. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, C. J.
The son of the plaintiff, Verne Parsons, aged 7 years and 3 or 4 months, was drowned while skating on the Saginaw river at Bay. City, Mich., in the latter part of the afternoon of January 12, 1915. The Saginaw river is one of the large navigable rivers of this State, and as it passes through Bay City on its course to Saginaw Bay, it divides for a distance into two channels, the east channel being the main channel of the river. The west channel, where the accident occurred, is about 200 feet in width, and is also conceded to be a navigable stream, having been used for a great many years for…
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