Knight v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal by the city of Seattle from a judgment rendered against it on the verdict of a jury in an action by the respondents to recover for personal injuries.

Third avenue in the city named is a street running approximately north and south. It is crossed at right angles by Madison street. On each of the streets are double tracks of the city’s municipal street railway lines. The respondent Claúdine Knight approached the street intersection, riding on a street car traveling south on Third avenue, intending to transfer to an east-hound car on Madison street. The car on which she was…