Brown v. Seattle City Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reavis, J.

The appellant company is the owner of a cable railway in Seattle. The eastern terminus of the road is situated on the shore of Lake Washington at the foot of Yesler way, and its western terminus is also on Yesler way at the junction of that street with Occidental avenue. At the western terminus of the road is á turn-table on which the trains of the railway are run and turned around preparatory to starting on their trip eastward to Lake Washington. On the 22d of September, 1893, between five and six o’clock in the afternoon, a train of the…