Vinnette v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Morris, J., entered November 3, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for causing the death of a minor child upon a railroad right of way.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
Action by Joseph E. Vinnette against the Northern Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s child. The plaintiff alleged, that his daughter, six years of age, was struck and killed by a backing train of freight cars while crossing defendant’s tracks within the limits of the city of Seattle, upon a platted street and upon a crossing used and traveled by the general public; that a city ordinance then in force prohibited the running of any steam engine and cars in Seattle at a rate of speed exceeding six miles per hour; that the defendant was backing a train *321of…
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