Hoyt v. Independent Asphalt Paving Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Griffin, J., entered March é, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for personal injuries sustained through a contractor’s negligence in carrying on street work.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The defendant, the Independent Asphalt Paving Company, entered into a contract with the city of Seattle for the paving of East Jefferson street from Ninth avenue to Twenty-first avenue. It is unnecessary to describe the character of the work which was to be done. But there was a double line of electric car tracks running along the middle of East Jefferson street, owned and operated by the Seattle Electric Company. East Jefferson street runs east and west. Abutting 0upon it to the south, and lying between Twentieth and Twenty-first avenues, is the residence property of the plaintiffs. It is…
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