Amsbary v. Grays Harbor Railway & Light Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Sheeks, J., entered June £4, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for the death of a pedestrian struck by a street car.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The plaintiff seeks recovery of damages which she claims resulted to her from the death of her husband, caused by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of one of its street cars. A trial before the court and a jury resulted in verdict and judgment against the defendant, from which it has appealed.
Appellant operates a street railway in and between Aberdeen and Cosmopolis. On October 10, 1912, at 7:2S in the evening, respondent’s husband, having fallen “in a heaped-up condition,” as expressed by a witness, near the westerly rail of appellant’s track leading from Aberdeen to…
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