Esterline v. Kennicott

On February 20, 1935, the plaintiff, then 14 years of age, was riding in the rear seat of the Essex coach automobile of defendant Gfuy Kennicott, being driven by his son Lester Kennicott, easterly on State highway M-89 in the city of Plainwell. Two other boys were riding in the car with the driver and plaintiff. The' car had proceeded across the bridge spanning the Kalamazoo river and from thence had driven a distance of a long business block east on M-89 and up and over a grade crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks and had proceeded about 195 feet from such tracks to the railroad…