Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Ward

The judgment of which this appeal complains, was for personal injury to appellee, on April 29, 1886, at appellant’s railway crossing of Root (or 42d) street, in this county. At that time there were crossing at that point what were known as the new-main, the in-main and the out-main tracks, the new-main lying on the east, the in-main, nine feet four and three-fourths inches further west, and the out-main, thirteen feet two and one-half inches still further west. There were two other tracks at the same crossing, both lying west of the out-main, and east of the new-main were three switch tracks,…