Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R. v. Martin

Campbell, C. T.

Martin recovered a judgment of $550 damages against the railroad company for injuries suffered on their depot grounds at Kalamazoo by reason of having the wagon in which he was approaching the depot struck by a car driven from the place where it had been standing,' by a freight train violently driven against it.

Martin was at the time driving through an open way or passage opened for that purpose by the company, and was conveying another person with several bushels of potatoes to the cars. The passage was not at any place crossed by tracks, but car tracks were laid up to it on…