Retan v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

Plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for 830,000 damages for negligent injuries. The negligence complained of was in allowing a sidewalk which crosses defendant’s main track, and extends along the side of a public street in the village of Hudson, to become out of repair, and dangerous to public travel, and by means of which the plaintiff’s foot was caught and fastened in said walk between one of the planks and one of the rails of defendant’s track, and while being so held one of defendant’s trains of cars ran over him, cutting off' both his feet.

The main track of defendant’s…