Coons v. Olympia Light & Power Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurston county, Wright, J., entered October 18, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages sustained in a collision between a street car and an automobile.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
Fourth street, in Olympia, runs in an easterly and westerly direction, and upon it the appellant operates a single track street car line. Easterly from Chestnut street, Fourth street rises for a short distance, then slopes slightly to the east, and then for a considerable distance continues on a sharp upward grade. At the intersection of Fourth and Chestnut streets, a spur track extends southerly for a couple of blocks to the appellant’s car barns. The track on Fourth street is laid to the north of the center of the street.
A collision occurred at the intersection of Fourth street, and…
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