Shaw v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Case by Mary L. Shaw, an infant, by her next friend, Charles B. Lamb, against the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company, for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, C. J.
Plaintiff went to defendant’s station at Millett at about the hour of 7:30 a. m. on the morning of July 4, 1898, to take a local train for Lansing, due at Millett at 8:17 a. m. Defendant’s train No. 1, west-bound, was due at Millett at 7:35 a. m. This train carried mail, but was not scheduled to stop at Millett. Mail had been carried on this fast train since some time in 1893, during which time the mail sack had been thrown off and picked up at this station while the train was in motion. The plaintiff was in the station, sitting near the window at the northeast end of the building. The bottom…
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