Illick v. Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad

The plaintiff’s intestate was a brakeman ■on the defendant’s cars, and, as plaintiff claims, was killed through the negligence of the company in constructing and maintaining an improper and dangerous railroad bridge on the line of its road near Chippewa station, in the county of Osceola.

It is for the killing of young Illick, by reason of such negligence on the part of the defendant, that this suit is brought, and sought to be maintained.

The only wrong counted upon in the plaintiff’s declaration is that the defendant was negligent in maintaining an improperly constructed bridge. The only…