Pederson v. Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

On September 16, 1891, at about eight or nine o’clock in the forenoon, the respondent entered upon one of the appellant’s electric street cars in the city of Seattle, to ride to North Seattle. Before reaching the destination of the respondent, and when on Front street about fifty feet north of Blanchard street, this car, while going down an incline, collided with a wagon belonging to the appellant which was standing on the track in charge of two men, who were upon a scaffold erected upon the wagon, engaged in repairing the trolley wire. It…