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GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY CO. v. IVES

No. 134.

144 U.S. 408 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 679

36 L.Ed. 485

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY, v. IVES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Otto Kirchner for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Don M. Dickinson for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action by Albert Ives, Jr., as administrator of the estate of Elijah Smith, deceased, against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, a Canadian corporation operating a line of railroad in Michigan, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful and negligent killing of plaintiff's intestate, without fault on his own part, by the railway company, at a street crossing in the city of Detroit. It was commenced...

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