Perz v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.

Plaintiff was injured on September 19, 1917; while riding on a miners’ train running from Bay City to the Whatcheer coal mine. The train on the day in question was still on the main line when it collided head on with a north-bound passenger train. Plaintiff claims that he was thrown across the car and injured. The damages claimed by him are for loss of time, physical injury to his person, including a hernia, and for pain and suffering. • The defendant disputes the nature and the extent of plaintiff’s injury and contends that the hernia which plaintiff claimed he sustained by the result of the…