McDonald v. New York Central Railroad

On the morning of July 9, 1921, one Peterson, while driving an automobile, sustained injuries in a collision with one of defendant's trains at a road crossing in the village of Lamar, a few miles distant from Grand Rapids. One of defendant's employees, by telephone, notified Dr. Rolland F. Webb, its local surgeon at Grand Rapids. The doctor testified:

"I at once ordered the ambulance from Butterworth hospital to go out and bring the man in and on my order the man was brought into Butterworth hospital. * * * He was mostly unconscious when I first saw him. He may have been conscious for a time.…