Byerley v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

This is an appeal by defendants, Northern Pacific Railway Company, W. A. Dalberg, and C. F. Montgomery, from a judgment entered by the superior court for Yakima county on the verdict of a jury, in favor of Martha P. Byerley, administratrix of the estate of Jess Byerley, deceased, after a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or in the alternative for a new trial had been denied, in an action instituted by plaintiff on behalf of herself and minor daughter, to recover damages for the death of Jess Byerley, the husband and father, who was killed at a grade crossing in Yakima, where I…