Dean v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Poindexter, J., entered April 14, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages for causing the death of a minor child employed on a gravel train, and knocked off a trestle by the starting of the train without warning.
1Opinion of the CourtRoot, J.
This case was here once before, and may be found in 38 Wash. 565, 80 Pac. 842, to which report reference is made for a more complete statement of the facts. Most of the legal questions now suggested were determined in that decision. A new trial resulted in a judgment for respondent in the sum of $1,078, from which this appeal is prosecuted.
We are now required to pass upon the legal sufficiency of the evidence as to decedent’s intention to return to his parents or contribute pecuniarily to them during his minority, he having been between eighteen and nineteen years of age at the time of his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dean v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1905
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