Schroeder v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

Miss Etta Schroeder brings this action to recover damages for being carried beyond Burton station on the evening of October 26, 1911. Plaintiff was 29 years of age, a domestic servant living in the city of Detroit. Her nephew, Jonah Cook, telephoned her from Burton on the day in question that a brother of hers was at the point of death. Arriving at defendant’s Milwaukee Junction station, she inquired of the ticket agent as to whether it would be possible for her to reach Burton that evening, and was informed that the local train had gone, but that she could take the fast train and change to…