Freeman v. Pere Marquette Railroad

This is an action for negligent injury to a passenger, in which the plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment of $200, and defendant brings error.

The plaintiff became a passenger in a caboose attached to a freight train. Before entering the caboose, he accepted and signed a ticket in which he agreed to exercise the highest degree of care to protect himself from injury, and agreed, if injured notwithstanding such care, to make no claim against the company. The defendant, however, does not, in the brief filed in this court, rely upon this contract as conclusive of plaintiff’s rights; but it is…