Carroll v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

— The plaintiff, Lydia T. Carroll, while on a public street in the city of Seattle and in a place where she had a right to be, was struck and somewhat severely injured by the defendant Preston O’Brien, who at the time was in the general employ of the respondent, Western Union Telegraph Company, as a motorcycle messenger.

Suit to recover for these injuries was instituted against both the Western Union Telegraph Company and O’Brien. A trial was had to a jury, which rendered a substantial verdict in favor of the plaintiff. A motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or, in the…