Nordstrom v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered January 1908, upon sustaining a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, dismissing an action for personal injuries, after a trial before the court and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
The respondent was constructing an electric railway from Spokane to Waverly, and the appellant was in *522its employ as a lineman. It having been discovered that the insulators used in the holding of the trolley wire were defective, in that the lugs were too large, the linemen were instructed to saw them off.- In doing this work the linemen worked in pairs, standing upon the tower cars and using a hack saw, one man sawing the lug on the right, and the other sawing the lug on the left of the insulator. In order to hurry the work along, the men worked overtime, for which they were correspondingly…
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