Benage v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

Plaintiff’s intestate, Jacob Gee, was a brakeman in the employ of the defendant company, which owned and operated a side track crossing the Kalamazoo river in the village of Otsego. This side track was placed across the'river by the company for the purpose of running its ■cars from the main line to the Bardeen paper mill, to transfer from the mill its manufactured product. It was built upon a trestle, and in a circular form, until it reached the manufacturing plant. Across the river from the main line the Bardeen Paper Company had erected gates across the track, just at the edge of the river.…