Roth v. Union Depot Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar', J.

The defendant is a railway terminal company in the city of Spokane. Its railway tracks and yards lie parallel with the Spokane river near its north bank in that city. North of the defendant company’s yards and tracks there is an addition to Spokane *526city on which lived, at the time the accident alleged in this case occurred, a number of families, variously estimated in the testimony at from twenty-five to fifty. The railway lines and switches of the appellant ran in a westerly direction across Washington street, at a right angle therewith and…