Austin v. Portland Traction Co.

This is an action for damages for negligence. The complaint alleges as follows: Plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant Portland Traction Company’s buses which was being driven northerly on Northwest Sixteenth Avenue in Portland. At the intersection of such street with Northwest Marshall Street a collision occurred between the traction company’s bus and a truck belonging to defendant Oregon Transfer Company. The transfer company was negligent in operating its truck at an unreasonable and imprudent rate of speed in view of the circumstances and conditions at the intersection, in…