Bankson v. Laflam
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Sullivan, J., entered January 28, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action upon a jitney bond, for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian at a street crossing.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
Plaintiff in crossing a street was struck by Laflam’s jitney, for the safe operation of which the defendant casualty company had become surety under Laws 1915, page 227 (Rem. 1915 Code, § 5562-37). By that act a surety becomes j ointly and directly liable with the principal to the extent of the penal sum, and only one cause of action was stated here when the two were sued jointly though the limit of the bond was prayed for against the surety and more from the principal. A motion for separation of causes of action was ill taken.
A verdict being rendered for plaintiff, an error is assigned in…
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