On the 8th day of March, 1913, plaintiff became a passenger of the Ann Arbor Railroad at Cadillac with through transportation to Charlevoix via Pere Marquette from Thompsonville. She arrived at Thompsonville on the Ann Arbor train at 6:15 o'clock in the evening. It was dark, and, being unacquainted with the situation, she informed the agent that she was going to Charlevoix, and inquired where she would take the train. He stepped to the door, called her attention to a light observable through a window of the Pere Marquette station nearly opposite, and directed her to go over the crosswalk to the light. She went to the waiting room, secured her baggage, and followed the way pointed out. When within a few feet of the Pere Marquette station platform she was struck by a belated south-bound Pere Marquette passenger train and carried on the pilot beam of the locomotive for something like 100 feet finally falling to the ground just before the train stopped. Her left foot was severed at the ankle joint, and the bones of her leg were so badly crushed that amputation 4 inches above the knee was necessary, and she was otherwise seriously injured.

The negligence charged against the Ann Arbor Railroad was the failure of the agent to inform plaintiff that she would have to cross the Pere Marquette track before she reached the station, and its failure to warn her of the approaching south-bound train which was then standing north of the target. The Pere Marquette Railway was charged with negligence in running the south-bound train into the station without giving sufficient warning of the approach, and with failing to maintain a proper lookout as it approached the crosswalk to avoid colliding with persons thereon. The negligence charged against both defendants was their failure to properly light the passageway so as to make it safe. The trial resulted in a judgment for plaintiff, and both defendants assign error.