Aldread v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Humphries, J., entered February 24, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a railway brakeman.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Respondent was engaged as a brakeman in a switching crew. The crew was regularly assigned to do the switching in and between Puyallup and Sumner during the berry season. The distance between Puyallup yards and Sumner yard is about a mile. Over this intervening space, switching is done on the main track. At the time plaintiff was injured, the crew was moving two cars, a flat car loaded with wood consigned to Sumner, and a refrigerator car, with passenger equipment, which had been iced at the ice house at Puyallup and was being moved to the Fruit Growers’ Association warehouse at Sumner for…
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