Blair v. City of Spokane
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spo'kane county, Hinkle, J., entered February 18, 1911, upon -the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an -action for the death of a laborer through the fall of a re-taining wall.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
Action by respondents to recover for the ■ death of their husband and father, caused by the alleged negligence of the city. The accident in which the deceased met ihis death occurred August 25, 1910, through the fall of a *401retaining wall and the slide of a fill on what is known as the Sprague avenue fill. This' work had originally been done under contract; but because of the defective methods employed by the contractor, the city had repudiated the contract, and at the time of the accident, was taking out the fill and tearing down the wall in places in order to reconstruct on safer and better…
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