Holland v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Adams county, Kauffman, J., entered February 13, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the defendants, by direction of the court, in an action for personal injuries resulting from a collision at a railway crossing.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The appellant Della Holland, while crossing the track of the respondent Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in a buggy, was run into by a passenger train and injured, and this action was brought to recover damages therefor. On the trial, at the close of the appellants’ case in chief, the jury, at the direction of the court, returned a verdict for the respondents, and from the judgment entered thereon, this appeal is taken.
The facts of the case are simple. Mrs. Holland and a woman companion left the town of Ritzville, Adams county, in an open buggy drawn by a single horse, shortly after *268eleven…
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