Field v. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Clarke county, McMaster, J., entered November 22, 1910, granting a new trial, after the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of one of the defendants, and. the granting of a nonsuit in favor of the other defendant, in consolidated actions for personal injuries sustained by passengers through the overturning of a stage.
1Opinion of the Court
.Fullerton, J.
Sometime in July, 1908, the plaintiffs left their home in Lewis county, Washington, to visit certain mineral springs in Skamania county.' The route they followed took them past Carson’s Landing on the Columbia river, a point they reached in the due course of their journey. From Carson’s Landing to the mineral springs, the only public conveyance was a stage. The stage, route, which followed the regular wagon road, crossed the tracks of the defendant railway company a short distance after leaving Carson’s Landing. To the right of the wagon road, the railroad passes through a deep…
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