Benaway v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent, an undertaker, left Middleville, Barry county, about 5 o’clock on the morning of July 27,1937, driving north on county highway No. 611. At the "Whitneyville crossing, 11 miles from Middleville, this highway runs north and south and intersects the track of the defendant which crosses the highway in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction. As he approached the crossing, a freight train was moving southeasterly toward the crossing. At 5:12 a.m., the automobile of plaintiff’s decedent and the engine of defendant’s train met at the crossing and plaintiff’s decedent was…