Deneen v. Houghton County Street-Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Houghton; Streeter, J. Case by John Deneen against the Houghton County Street-Railway Company-for personal injuries. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The undisputed evidence in this cause shows that, when 28 feet distant from the rail of defendant’s car track, the plaintiff could have seen a car distant 450 feet to the northwest of the crossing in front of him. At that time his horses’ heads would have been 11 feet from the rail. He testified that he looked and listened all of the way from a point 60 feet from the track, yet did not see a car until his horses’ heads were within two feet of the track, when he saw it about a hundred feet away. He then whipped up his horses but the sleigh *237was struck and he was injured. A verdict was rendered…
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