Barron v. City of Detroit

Our decisions, apparently, are destined in definable instances -to travel a cyclic course. This case, like impending return to-earlier-interpretations of the workmen’s compensation act, becomes as wholesome restoration of tried and dependable first principles of negligence law.

Conventional traffic control signals came to us following advent of the automobile and its paved way of travel. Originally, and I think rightfully so, this Court held that one undertaking to cross a street or highway by signaled permission of such a device is not required — as a .matter of law — to assume that one in…