Welch v. Petley
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for' King county, Dykeman, J., entered December 5, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a fall from a sidewalk.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
Eighteen errors are assigned by the appellants, but they are argued under three general propositions: (1) Whether or not appellants were guilty of negligence ; (2) whether or not respondent Ruby Welch was guilty of contributory negligence; and (3) whether the court erred in giving and in refusing certain instructions.
On and prior to June 20, 1914, Thirty-seventh avenue south, in Seattle, was a public street, with a plank sidewalk along the easterly side thereof for some distance south of Hudson street, consisting of two rows of wide planks laid parallel, and which had been used by respondents…
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