Laethem v. Fort Wayne & Belle Isle Railway Co.

This is an action brought to recover for *299injuries sustained by the alleged negligence of the defendant company.

The defendant operates a single-track street railway with horses in the city of Detroit. The plaintiff, on January 0, 1893, in the morning, was driving his milk sleigh on Champlain street. He stopped his sleigh, and took a can of milk from it into the sleigh of Miss Le Fevre, standing alongside of his. There was a snowdrift near the curb. Miss Le FevreV sleigh stood near the drift, and the plaintiff’s between hers and the railway track. The sleighs were close together, and the…