Cole v. Gerrick
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J., entered October 31, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for Wrongful death of an employee engaged as a structural iron Worker in the erection of a building.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
This is an action to recover damages from the defendants, alleged to be the result of their negligently causing the death of George Cole, the husband and father of the plaintiffs. A trial before the court and a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in plaintiffs’ favor, from which the defendants have appealed.
The argument of learned counsel for appellants is directed almost wholly to the alleged error of the trial court in denying their challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and judgment in respondents’ favor, made at the close of the trial and renewed in their…
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