Budman v. Seattle Electric Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered April 25, 1910, in favor of the defendant, notwithstanding the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a track laborer struck by a street car.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The Seattle Electric Company was operating its cars in Seattle on a line that is known as the Wallingford line. Some gravel and sand had been thrown upon the track where this accident occurred, for the purpose of repairing or raising the ties. The most of this gravel which had not been used had been removed. There was still a little left to be removed, and the plaintiff was left by the foreman to remove it, when one of the cars .traveling on that line struck *282him, causing the injury for which he sues to recover. The case was tried to a jury, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff,…
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