Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Co. v. Smith
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Marquette. Case. The declaration is bere given. In tlie Oireuit Court for the County of Ma/rquette : Dennis Smith, by Geo.
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Error to Marquette. Case. The declaration is bere given. In tlie Oireuit Court for the County of Ma/rquette : Dennis Smith, by Geo. W. Hayden, who is admitted by the court to prosecute for the said Dennis Smith, who is an infant within the age of twenty-one years, as the next friend of the said Dennis Smith, plaintiff herein, complains of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, a corporation under the railroad laws of the State of Michigan, and doing business in said county of Marquette, defendant herein, of a plea of trespass on the case, filing this declaration, entering rule to plead,…
1Opinion of the Court
Marston, O. J.. "While the witnesses do not fully agree upon the facts, yet in the view which we are compelled to take, the dispute becomes immaterial. The court charged the jury in substance and effect, that if they found the facts to be as testified to by the defendant’s witnesses, the plaintiff coidd not recover, and the instructions given, as to the right of the company to a clear track, and the boy being a trespasser, that it could only be held liable in case there was gross and wanton negligence on its part, such negligence as would indicate an indifference to the safety of the boy,…
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