Barger v. Bissell

On the afternoon of March 25, 1911, plaintiff, a child six years, ten months, and ten days of age, started hurriedly to cross Gratiot avenue, in the city of Detroit, from the north curb at a point between Townsend and Sheridan avenues, and was struck by the right fore wheel mud guard of defendant’s passing automobile, receiving injuries, the exact nature of which is not made clear in this record, but for which she recovered in this action, brought by her mother, as next friend, a verdict and judgment for $975.

Under their assignments of error, defendant’s counsel first and most seriously urge…