Larsen v. Home Telephone Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Murfin, J. Case by Selma Larsen, administratrix of the estate of Simon Larsen, deceased, against the Home Telephone Company of Detroit and the Electric Construction Company, a foreign corporation, for the negligent killing of deceased. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Defendants have appealed from an adverse judgment.
The principal questions in this case can be made plain by an outline of the facts without including the details necessary to be understood when the various assignments of error are discussed, and which can more conveniently be stated in connection with the respective points relied on. The plaintiff’s intestate was a railroad conductor in charge of a freight train on the Grand Trunk road. While riding on the footboard of the engine in the railroad yard in Detroit, he was thrown, or fell, or stepped, from the footboard, and was run over, dying…
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