Rossier v. Payne

This is an action to recover damages for the death of Marvin A. Mason, killed in a railway crossing accident June 16, 1918, in Yakima county. A trial before a jury in the court below resulted in a verdict for the defendant, and a judgment was entered accordingly, from which the plaintiff has appealed.

The facts upon which the action was based follow: For many years prior to the time of the accident, there had existed a road running from the farm occupied by Mason in a southerly direction to a point about sixty feet from the main line tracks of the Northern Pacific Railway Company; thence in a…