Anson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered April 11, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the defendants, by direction of the court, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a brakeman by being struck by an engine.
1Opinion of the Court
Dunbar, J. —
-Accepting appellant’s statement: The accident which occasioned plaintiff’s injuries occurred in the defendant company’s yards at Spokane. Spokane is a division terminal point, the company having there a large roundhouse and extensive yards in which its trains are made up. Plaintiff .was a freight brakeman, and was injured while making ready to go out on his run. Just at the door of the roundhouse *95in the yard is a turntable. Leading from the turntable to the east are two tracks. The one to the north, under which for quite a distance there is an ash-pit, lies alongside of the coal…
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