Dupuis v. Saginaw Valley Traction Co.

This is an action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff on May 2, 1904, on account of his being thrown from the rear platform of one of defendant’s street cars while going around a curve at the intersection of Sixth and Wadsworth streets. The court was requested to direct a verdict in favor of defendant. This he declined to do. Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $16,927. Defendant then made a motion for a new trial, and asked the judge, in case the motion was overruled, to file his reasons for doing so. The judge complied with this request, as follows:

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