Blomsness v. Puget Sound Electric Railway
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered December 4, 1906, upon granting a nonsuit at the close of plaintiff’s case, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This is an action for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained by the appellant by being struck in the face and on the head with a lantern, in the hand of a conductor who had charge of a train of cars on one of which the áppellant was at the time a passenger.
The complaint alleges, that on July 4, 1906, the appellant, with his wife and two children, went on board one of defendant’s passenger trains at Tacoma, Washington, to be transported to Seattle; that he there paid the conductor the usual and customary fare for such transportation; that under the rules and regulations of the…
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- Daniel v. . R. R.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1895
- Central Railway Co. v. PeacockCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1888
- Palmer v. Winston-Salem Railway & Electric Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1902
- Strother v. Aberdeen & Ashboro RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
- Wise v. Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1891
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