Kidder v. Marysville & Arlington Railway Co.

Defendants are corporations, and have for several years operated a logging railroad in Snohomish county, for the purpose of hauling logs from their camp, about eight miles northeast of the city of Arlington, to tidewater, near Marysville. The late John F. Kidder was, for approximately fifteen years, in defendants' employ as brakeman, working upon this logging railroad. March 24, 1927, Mr. Kidder, while riding on a logging train in the course of his employment, was killed in an accident resulting from the falling down of a brake beam on one of the logging trucks, which, catching in the frog of…