Olds v. Hines
Oregon Supreme Court
The plaintiff, a young man about nineteen years of age, by his guardian ad litem in this action sues Walker D. Hines as director-general of the United States Railroad Administration, and Jones and Amundson, the engineer and fireman in charge of a train of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company, for damages on account of an injury which he received in a collision between a train on that road and a motor truck which he was operating at the time.
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The plaintiff, a young man about nineteen years of age, by his guardian ad litem in this action sues Walker D. Hines as director-general of the United States Railroad Administration, and Jones and Amundson, the engineer and fireman in charge of a train of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company, for damages on account of an injury which he received in a collision between a train on that road and a motor truck which he was operating at the time. The accident occurred in the City of Portland where the railroad track crosses Fifteenth Street. The ground of negligence charged against the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
A brief résumé of the testimony is here set down: Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets in Portland run due north and south. The Spokane, Portland «fe Seattle Railway track on which the accident happened comes from the northwest on a slight curve to the left across these streets. There are some docks situated on the bank of the Willamette River near the foot of Fifteenth Street. The plaintiff was an experienced truckman and quite familiar with the crossing and the surroundings, having driven over the tracks there for about a year before the accident. On the day in question he had gone…
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