Webster v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.

— This action was brought to recover for personal injuries, sustained by respondent while a passenger upon one of appellant’s street railway cars. At the trial appellant did not contest its liability for the injuries respondent had sustained, and the only issue tried was the extent of retspondent’s injuries, and the amount of damages he was entitled to recover. Considerable evidence was taken upon this issue. At the close of the testimony, the court instructed the jury, among other things, that in estimating the damages they might take into consideration “any expense for medicine and care of…