Tham v. J. T. Steeb Shipping Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Pierce county, Snell, J., entered August 29, 1904, granting a new trial, for error of law, upon motion of the plaintiff, after a trial and verdict in favor of the defendant, in an action for personal injuries.
1Opinion of the CourtRoot, J.
Respondent, while working for appellant upon a scow by the side of the ship “Robert Adamson,” was knocked from said scow by a sling-load of lumber, swung from the rail of said ship. In falling, he struck upon the railing of a naphtha launch, lying alongside the scow, and suffered a broken leg. He brought suit for damages. At the trial, a verdict was returned in favor of the defendant.
A motion for a new trial was duly made, and was granted by the trial court, solely upon the ground that two of its instructions were inconsistent with, and contradictory to, each-other, and that one of them,…
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