Fisher v. Butte Electric Railway Co.

The defendants appealed from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for personal injuries.

The Butte Electric Railway Company maintains a double-track system between the city of Butte and Columbia Gardens, over which it operates street-cars propelled by electricity. The cars from the city to the Gardens use the south track, and the cars returning from the Gardens to the city use the north track. Some distance east of the city limits, the tracks pass under a viaduct, and from that point to the East Butte Hotel, a distance of 250 feet, ascend through a deep…