South Tacoma Fuel & Transfer Co. v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered June 11, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for damages from a collision.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This is a suit to recover damages for injuries to respondent’s two horses, sustained in a collision with appellant’s cars, in the city of Tacoma, January 2, 1908. Respondent’s team was engaged in grading Delin street, and in the performance of work it was necessary to pass back and" forth over appellant’s tracks. Respondent’s teamster drove upon appellant’s south track with a team hitched to a drag scraper loaded with earth, and just as he did so a car on appellant’s north track pulled up in front of the team and stopped, and while in this position a car came down on the south track and hit…
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