Hart v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court fur King county, Griffin, J., entered May 14, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in ai action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger by reason of a defect in a station platform.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
This is an action for damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff npon the station platform of defendant company at Hillman City. The defendant owns and operates an electric railway between Seattle and Ren*426ton, and the plaintiff was a passenger upon one of ts cars. When the car stopped at Hillman City, the plain iff was in the act of stepping from the car to the station p latform when it is alleged that it was dark. It is also alleged that, directly beneath the step of the car, a piece o f wood, about two inches thick and four inches wide, was nailed along the station platform, and…
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- Knight v. Portland, Saco & Portsmouth RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1868
- Jordan v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R.Superior Court of Delaware · 1889
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