Strafford v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered March 11, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, as against certain defendants, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger in a train wreck.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam. —
Annie Strafford, the wife of the other plaintiff, William Strafford, while a passenger upon a train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, was injured through the collapse of a trestle on the railway fine over which á train of that company was passing. The trestle, which was built above the intersecting line of the Northern Pacific Railway, had been weakened by the projecting boom of a crane carried as freight on a train of the latter railway company. The boom had swept against the supports on one side of the trestle and broken and shattered them so as to render…
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