Puget Sound Electric Ry. v. Benson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United) States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Edward ECushman, Judge. Action by Harvey K. Benson against the Puget Sound Electric Railway, a corporation, and others. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
This action is one to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by Benson. the defendant in error (plaintiff below), who was at the time in the employ of the fire department of the city of Seattle. While driving a, motor-propelled apparatus, known as a “water tower,” belonging to the fire department, easterly along Connecticut street, an electric street car collided with it at the junction of Eirst avenue, which runs at right angles with the above-named street, whereby the plaintiff received the injuries of which he complains. The water…
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