Stenzhorn v. City Electric Railway Co.

Plaintiff, while engaged in the performance of his duties as a street sweeper in the employ of the city of Port Huron, was struck by one of defendant’s east-bound cars and seriously injured. At the time of the accident, about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, plaintiff was sweeping towards the east along the south rail of the track with his back towards, and directly in the path of, the approaching car from the west. Plaintiff testified:

“ I was working on the track a few minutes just before the car struck me, and was facing the east. I was sweeping the street. I had been sweeping along the track…