Mouso v. Bellingham & Northern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Whatcom county, Pemberton, J., entered June IB, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action in tort, after a trial on the merits.
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
This action was brought to recover for damages to an automobile truck, occasioned by a collision between the truck and a switch train then being operated by appellant. The facts, as shown at the trial below, are substantially as follows:
The collision occurred at about 2:30 p. m. on December 18, 1917, at the intersection of Chestnut street with appellant’s main line spur track, in the city of Bellingham. The truck was being operated by an *300experienced truck driver, fully familiar with all of the surrounding conditions, who had driven a truck across this particular track ten or a dozen times a…
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