Anest v. Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mackintosh, J., entered December 21, 1914, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for wrongful death, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
On Sunday, December 15, 1912, Keneages Flengern, while employed in inspecting appellant’s railroad track by the order of his immediate superior, the section foreman, was killed. He was riding eastward from Renton upon a “speeder,” or hand car, operated by himself at the time. The morning was cold and stormy, and the deceased had on, when found immediately after the accident, a Swedish cap with flaps fastened over his ears and tied under his chin. At a point about one thousand feet east of a bridge called bridge No. 7, there is a curve to the south in the track. An engine without any car…
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