Allend v. Spokane Falls & Northern Railway Co.

Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered by

Fullerton, J.

The appellant is a railway corporation owning and operating a line of railway in this state. In tbe month of April, 1897, tbe respondent was one of its employees, engaged, as a common laborer with others, in riprapping and repairing certain parts of tbe appellant’s roadbed in tbe vicinity of Marcus, in Stevens county, in this state; all working under tbe supervision of one George Harkleroad. Tbe appellant used in this work a construction train consisting of an engine, certain flat cars and a caboose, for tbe purpose of transporting tbe…