Valentine v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Myers, J., entered February 17, 1912, upon granting a nonsuit, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger on a railway train.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
This appeal is from a judgment of nonsuit in an action to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff Annie L. Valentine, which injuries it is charged were caused by the negligence of the defendants.
The plaintiffs, husband and wife, on April 4, 1911, at about eleven o’clock p. m., took passage upon a train of the defendant railway company at Portland, Oregon, for Tacoma, Washington. They had purchased a sleeper ticket entitling them to berth No. 11 on the Pullman sleeper which formed a part of the train. This berth was the last one on the right-hand side of the car as one entered…
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