Stanke v. Spokane, Coeur D' Alene & Palouse Railway Co.

This is an action brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act.

Defendant operates an electric railway system in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Plaintiff, for more than twenty years prior to his injury, had been employed as a wireman on the system. On April 24, 1933, while engaged in his occupation as such, he came in contact with a high voltage wire and sustained injuries which he alleges to be the result of negligence on the part of defendant. Answering the complaint, defendant denied negligence and set up, by way of affirmative defenses, contributory negligence and assumption…