Averbuch v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered April 8, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained at a railroad crossing.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This is a personal injury case. The plaintiff was thrown from his wagon by a locomotive of the defendant railway company, and injured, on the 29th day of September, 1908, upon a public highway crossing one of defendant’s tracks. The above action was brought to recover damages for injury against the railway company and the-defendant E. P. Sheerer, who was engineer in charge of the engine. The case was tried to a jury, and verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $2,683. A challenge by the defendants to the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s evidence,, at the close of plaintiff’s…
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