Nappli v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.

The defendant prosecutes this appeal from a judgment rendered on the verdict of a jury in an action for personal injuries. The injury occurred to the plaintiff on April 6, 1908, between the hours of five and six o’clock in the evening. He was driving a team of horses hitched to an express wagon across the tracks of the appellant company, in Seattle, where Dearborn street crosses Rainier avenue, when one of the defendant’s cars ran upon him, killed his team, and severely injured the plaintiff. The complaint alleged that the car was running at an excessive rate of speed. The defense was a…