Jewell v. Rogers Township

This action was brought by plaintiff as administrator of the estate of his son, Raymond Jewell, a young married man, 22 years of age, who lost his life on May 16, 1917, through an automobile in which he was riding falling into the pit of a quarry belonging to defendant Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company at a point where it crossed an old highway in the defendant township of Rogers. The negligence charged in plaintiff’s declaration is that defendants did not erect and maintain suitable barriers and warning notices effectually closing said road after exten*321sion of the Limestone & Chemical…