Lund v. City of Seattle

As a result of the collision in the city of Seattle, June 30,1927, of one of the defendant city’s street cars, while operated by defendant Peterson, with a fire department truck, Darwin T. Lund, a member of the fire department, was killed. The trial to a jury of an action against Peterson and the city of Seattle, brought on behalf of decedent’s daughter to recover for the death of her father, resulted in a verdict for four thousand dollars in favor of the plaintiff. Prom the judgment entered, motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and for a new trial having been overruled, the…