Makino v. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co.

This appeal brings before us only two assignments of error: one challenges a ruling of the circuit court which denied the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and the other is predicated upon an order which overruled the defendant’s objection to a portion of the argument of plaintiff’s counsel to the jury.

The defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was based upon a contention that the injuries which the plaintiff sustained resulted from a risk of his employment which he had assumed. The plaintiff was a section laborer in the defendant’s employ, engaged in maintaining defendant’s…