Beeman v. Puget Sound Traction Light & Power Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered April 14, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian, struck by a street car at a crossing.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff approached a crossing on one of the streets in the city of Seattle. When about to step from the sidewalk, he looked up the street and saw a street car about four hundred and fifty feet away. The car was coming toward him, and was moving at a rate of speed alleged to be, and which the jury found to be, approximately thirty miles an hour. The head light of the car was lighted. The crossing was muddy and plaintiff was engaged in picking his way across the street when he was struck by the car and injured. Plaintiff was slightly deaf. He does not contend that the gong was not sounded. At…
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