Taliaferro v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.

Very early in the evening or late in the afternoon of October 30, 1925, plaintiff’s decedent was driving an automobile in a northerly direction on Division road, a paved thoroughfare in the village of Springwells, a suburb of Detroit. Defendant’s double tracks running in a southeasterly and northwesterly direction cross the road. There are no obstructions to the full view of the tracks from any part of Division road for a distance of 300 feet south of the crossing, from which direction decedent was coming. Whether it was dark or just becoming dusk is in dispute. There were neither lights nor…