Myhra v. Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J., entered February 21, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for personal injuries sustained by a railway brakeman in a fall from a car.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while in the service of the defendant. This appeal is prosecuted from a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor.
The essential facts are that the respondent, who had had about fifteen years’ experience as a railway brakeman and about five years’ experience as a railway conductor, sustained a serious injury on the 7th day of December, 1908. At that time he had been employed by the appellant as a brakeman for some four or five weeks. He was injured by falling, or being thrown, from a car while attempting to…
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