Yagunchok v. Rutledge

Plaintiff’s intestate, a boy 4 years of age, was struck by an automobile of defendant on a street in Detroit. The injury was fatal. He died within 15 minutes, having, it was said, recovered consciousness momentarily. The declaration counted on both the death act and the survival act. Recovery was had under the survival act. In the count on the survival act it was said:

“And thereby the body of said infant decedent was crushed under the wheels of the said motor vehicle, and thereby grievously and fatally injured from the effects whereof he did die, * * * said infant decedent was violently…