Williams v. Stokane Falls & Northern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court for Spokane county, Richardson, J., entered May 27, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for personal injuries sustained by a mail clerk in a collision.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
Appellant was a railway postal clerk in tbe service of the United States. On August 15, 1903, he was one of the clerks in charge of a postal car attached to a train of the appellant, running between Spokane and North-port. The car on which he was occupied was, pursuant to the usual custom, detached from the train at the latter point, and set in on a side track, to be returned to Spokane on the day following. Northport is a terminal point, and trains are made up at that point for other destinations. The siding upon which this postal car was placed was three hundred feet in length, and an even…
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