Olson v. Carlson
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered January 28, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiif for $11,500, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a common laborer in railroad construction work.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This is the second appeal in this case. At the first trial, the court granted a nonsuit upon the motion of the defendants, and dismissed the case. Plaintiif appealed from the judgment then entered. Upon a review of the case, *416we concluded that the evidence was sufficient to take the case to the jury upon the principal act of negligence alleged, which was that the respondents had adopted an unsafe method for doing the work. For that reason, the case was reversed and remanded for a new trial. Olson v. Carlson, 74 Wash. 39, 132 Pac. 721. Upon a retrial, a verdict was rendered in favor of the…
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