Berg v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Hatch, J., entered December 22, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for personal injuries sustained by a motorman in a collision on a street railway.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, C. J.
Action for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $5,000. Defendant appeals.
The appellant operated a line of electric street railway between Seattle and Renton, a distance of twelve miles. The line consisted of a single track, with numerous switches and sidetracks or turnouts. There were but two through cars between Seattle and Renton. There were four or five local cars running between Seattle and Rainier Beach, which was a station some eight miles out of Seattle. The respondent was employed as a motorman on one of the through cars. These two through cars were called express…
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