Fenlon v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered March 17, 1917, in favor of the defendant, notwithstanding the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action in tort.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, C. J.
Action by the holder of a first-class ticket from Falcon, Idaho, to Roland, Idaho, points on defendant’s railroad line, for damages’ claimed as resulting to plaintiff wife through failure of defendant to stop its train at the initial point, take on and carry her to the point of destination.
Both stations are situated in the Bitterroot Mountain district in Northern Idaho. Roland is east of Falcon about ten miles as the railroad runs, and something less than two miles by trail through a canyon. Falcon is not a regular passenger station, but there is maintained there a depot, a regular station…
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