Jordan v. Seattle Renton & Southern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered February %, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal' injuries sustained by a passenger in a street car collision.
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, J.
The defendant company owns -and operates a line of electric railway between the city of Seattle and the town of Renton. On the 13th day of August, 1906, the plaintiff became a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars, and while such passenger was injured in a collision between the car upon which he was a passenger and a “line car,” operated by the defendant company and running in the opposite direction over the same track. This action was brought to recover damages for the injury so received, and from a judgment in the sum of $500 in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant has appealed.
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