Michigan Supreme Court September 25, 1894 (Benage v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.)

lead-opinion

Long, J.

Plaintiff’s intestate, Jacob Gee, was a brakeman in the employ of the defendant company, which owned and operated a side track crossing the Kalamazoo river in the village of Otsego. This side track was placed across the'river by the company for the purpose of running its ■cars from the main line to the Bardeen paper mill, to transfer from the mill its manufactured product.