Engelking v. City of Spokane
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered December 13, 1909, upon the vei'dict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for the wrongful death of an employee.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
At the time of his death, H. W. Engelking was a common laborer in the employ of the city of Spokane. The city was engaged in erecting a concrete bridge over the Spokane river, a short distance above the falls. The bridge had been so far completed as to warrant the removal of the false work sustaining the arches, of which there were several. High water had taken out the false work from under the second arch, and the wooden forms had been moored by cables to the Great Northern railway bridge, a structure which paralleled the city bridge about two hundred feet up the stream and to the east.…
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