Legal Opinion

Bartelt v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.

Washington Supreme Court

Decided January 17, 1910No. 8121PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered January 23, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action of tort.

1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.

This is a suit to recover damages from a common carrier for injuries to live stock, resulting from its alleged negligence. The dereliction charged is that the appellant, in violation of its duty as a common carrier, so negligently and carelessly operated its cars that certain brood mares were bruised, injured, and maimed, while being transported over its road, in the month of November, 1907. The appellant joined issue upon the charge of negligence, and alleged affirmatively that it transported two carloads of vicious, wild, and unruly horses for the respondent, from Huntington, Oregon, to…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Terre Haute & Logansport Railroad v. SherwoodIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
  2. Pennsylvania R. v. RaiordonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
  3. Normile v. Oregon Navigation Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1902
  4. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. RagsdaleIndiana Court of Appeals · 1896
  5. Prenatt v. RunyonIndiana Supreme Court · 1859

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Carstens Packing Co. v. Southern Pacific Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1910
  2. Cooper v. Oregon Short Line R. R. Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1927
  3. McGrath v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
  4. Lane v. Oregon Short Line RailroadIdaho Supreme Court · 1921
  5. The Pacific SpruceDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1932

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