Bonner v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.

Between 4 and 5 o’clock on the afternoon of January 17, 1914, plaintiff, while on his way south to a nearby grocery store, went upon defendant’s double main track railroad, at its right-angled intersection with Washington avenue, which runs north and south through the city of Lansing, just as the crossing gates were being lowered, and stood between the rails of the north, or west-bound, track, awaiting the passage into the passenger station immediately to the east, of defendant’s No. 8 fast Pullman express train from the west. While so standing he was struck and injured by a freight train of…