Hill v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Washington.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
This was an action at law, commenced in one of ihe courts of the state of Washington to recover damages growing out of the death of Alexander H. Hill, who was the husband of one ci the plaintiffs and the father of the other, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant railroad company, on whose motion the case was transferred to the court below. The deceased was a brakeman, and was on top of a car as the train was passing along a portion of the track between a tunnel and a snowshed, from which position he was thrown and killed in entering the shed. The…
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