Selleck v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This is case for negligence.

Plaintiff, a bus driver, was m route for the depot, with two passengers. Three railway tracks crossed the street near the depot. A freight train occupied one of these tracks, and obstructed the street for over 20 minutes. The conductor of the freight train had gone to dinner. Plaintiff halted his team some 3 or 4 rods south of the tracks, and waited from 10 to 15 minutes for the freight to get out of the way, or to make a cut so that he might pass. While waiting, a passenger train came along on one of the tracks north of the track occupied by the freight train,…