Abby v. Wood
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Miller, J., entered July 17, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for damages for the death of an infant child, • caused by a runaway team.
1Opinion of the CourtRoot, J.
This was an action by plaintiff to recover for the death of a minor child killed by a runaway team which, it was alleged, escaped from defendant by reason of his intoxicated condition. The material facts were about as follows: Plaintiff and wife were farmers, living in Columbia county near Waitsburg. On May 7, 1904, plaintiff’s wife was driving in a buggy along a public road in said county with her child, an infant not quite one year old, when defendant’s team ran into them and killed the child." Defendant had been in Waitsburg during the day and was to some extent intoxicated when he started…
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