Hull v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.

The respondents brought this action against the appellant to recover the value of an automobile which was run into and destroyed by a train operated on the *164appellant’s railway. At the time of the accident, the automobile was being driven by a son of the respondent Hull, who had engaged to carry a pleasure party, seven in number, from Georgetown, in King county, to a place on Lake Washington. The road over which the party traveled parallels the appellant’s railway for a considerable distance, finally crossing it at a place known as Rainier Beach. The car approached the crossing running at the…