Legal Opinion
Howe v. Michigan Central Railroad
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 8, 1926No. Docket No. 23PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSnow, J.
For 14 years Fred C. Howe had been employed by the Michigan Central Railroad Company on its trains, either as fireman, brakeman, or conductor. December 30, 1923, he was working as rear brakeman on a 70-car through freight train, running from Jackson to Detroit on the east-bound main of a double track. The train made no stop after it left Jackson until it arrived at a point about two miles east of Dearborn, when one was made ‘by the engineer because of a block signal ahead. It was night, and was dark, foggy, and rainy. It happened that the waycar of the train, as it came to the stop, stood on…
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