Beagle v. Pere Marquette Railroad

This is an action for injuries received in a railway crossing accident in the city of Flint at the intersection of Second street with the defendant’s line of railway. At this point there are three tracks, the one farthest to the east being the main track, the one in the middle, about 24 feet distant, being the one on which the accident occurred.

On December 2, 1911, at about 1 o’clock p. m., a freight engine was standing across Second street on the middle track, its pilot about 10 feet south of the sidewalk on the north side of Second street, waiting for the regular passenger train to pass so…