Devoto v. United Auto Transportation Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Card, J., entered June 20, 1923, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in consolidated actions in tort.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
These causes all arise out of one accident and were consolidated and tried as one, resulting in a verdict awarding A. L. Devoto $250; Leo Devoto $1,500; and E. J. Thompson $1,000. From a judgment on the verdict, the defendants have appealed.
As we view the questions now to be decided, it is unnecessary to set out the details of the accident out of which the causes of action arose. It will be sufficient, we think, to say that the automobile owned and driven by respondent Thompson, in which the other respondents were riding, was proceeding along the highway from Camp Lewis to Tacoma, through a…
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