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Negligence - Liability Of Street Railways For Injuries To Alighting Passengers - Duty Of Car Employees, Dan K. Cook
Negligence - Liability Of Street Railways For Injuries To Alighting Passengers - Duty Of Car Employees, Dan K. Cook
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff passenger, while alighting from the right side of a street car, operated by defendant street railway company in the center of a well-traveled road, was struck by an automobile traveling toward plaintiff from the front of the street car on the same side from which plaintiff was discharged. The automobile was traveling this uncommon course by reason of road repairs which created a temporary situation during which motor traffic in both directions was traveling along the half of the road on which plaintiff was alighting. Plaintiff contended, in an action brought for the injuries she sustained, that a legal …
Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone
Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone
Michigan Law Review
This was an action by the administrator under the survival act. Decedent's mother while a passenger on the defendant's street-car was injured through negligence of an employee. Decedent thus suffered prenatal injuries to his skull from which he died three months after birth. The birth occurred 22 days after the accident and after a normal period of gestation. Held, there is no liability to an infant for prenatal injuries and therefore no cause of action existed in the child or survives to the administrator. Newman v. City of Detroit, 281 Mich. 60, 274 N. W. 710 (1937).