Schulte v. Michigan Central Railroad

The plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s trains on the night of December 6, 1906j to be carried from Yassar, Mich., to Detroit, Mich. When the train arrived at a point between Millington and Otter Lake a wreck occurred. The car in which plaintiff was a passenger rolled down an embankment and plaintiff was seriously injured. After plaintiff had put in all his testimony, the defendant moved the court to direct a verdict, which the court did, on the ground that plaintiff had failed to introduce sufficient evidence of negligence on the defendant’s part to require the court to submit…