Olson v. Erickson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Griffin, J., entered July 10, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $2,000, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee about a steam shovel.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The respondent brought this action against the appellant to recover for personal injuries received by him while in the appellant’s employment. The jury returned a verdict in his favor for the sum of $2,000. Judgment was entered on the verdict, and this appeal was taken therefrom.
At the time of the accident to the respondent, the appellant was excavating a street in the city of Seattle with a steam shovel. The engine and other mechanism by which the shovel was operated was carried on a car placed on trucks running on rails, similar to the trucks and rails of an ordinary railway. The scoop, or…
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