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CALLESEN v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD CO.

Docket No. 92841.

175 Mich. App. 252 (1989)

437 N.W.2d 372

CALLESEN v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided February 23, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by Joan Lovell and James Tuck), for plaintiffs.

Patterson & Patterson, Whitfield, Manikoff, Ternan & White, P.C. (by Robert G. Waddell), for Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company.

Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr, Heaphy, Moore, Sills & Poling, P.C. (by Richard J. Tonkin), for Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling (by Carson C. Grunewald and David K. McLeod), and Foster, Meadows & Ballard (by Richard A. Dietz), for Association of American Railroads.

Before: DOCTOROFF, P.J., and SHEPHERD and R.R. LAMB, JJ.

SHEPHERD, J.

This case involves a collision between an automobile and a freight train at a railroad crossing protected by a flashing light signal. The automobile was driven by plaintiff Russell Callesen, who sustained serious injuries. Russell Callesen and his parents sued the railroad, Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, and the manufacturer of the flashing light, Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc., as well as the Association of American Railroads, which publishes information...

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