Baldie v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered October 26, 1908, upon defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, after a trial before a jury, dismissing an action for damages to an automobile run into by a street car.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
This action was brought by plaintiff to recover damages for injuries to an automobile, alleged to have been the result of the careless and negligent operation *76of one of defendant’s street cars in the city of Tacoma. At about the hour of midnight of November 7, 1907, the automobile, driven by a chauffeur, was run onto Tacoma avenue from a side street, and was proceeding in a southerly direction at a speed of about ten or twelve miles an hour. After the automobile had been run a distance of three or four blocks and was within about twenty feet of a street crossing, the car crashed into the rear…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Traver v. Spokane Street Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1901
- North Chicago Electric Railway Co. v. PeuserIllinois Supreme Court · 1901
- Burian v. Seattle Electric Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1901
- Skinner v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1907
- Helber v. Spokane Street Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1900
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