Harry v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Blake, J., entered May 7, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee engaged in railroad construction work.
1Opinion of the CourtMain, J.
Action for personal injuries tried to a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of respondent. The facts are substantially as follows:
The respondent, an Armenian by birth, together with a number of his countrymen, were in the employ of the appellant a's laborers in an extra gang engaged in repairing or raising a portion of the company’s track near Erie, Washington. The camp where the men boarded and slept was located some two miles from the point where the work was being done, and the men went from the camp to their work and returned on hand-cars furnished by appellant. Respondent…
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