Oregon-Washington R. & Nav. Co. v. Roman

(after stating the facts as above). The principal assignments of error go to the refusal of the court to sustain the motion for a directed verdict. But we are of opinion that the court was right in submitting the issues to the jury. While the hooks contain cases wherein, under the particular facts presented, the courts have held that children crossing railroad tracks may be guilty of *668contributory negligence, nevertheless there are certain general principles now so well ingrafted upon the law of negligence that mere statement of them will demonstrate their applicability to the facts…