McPhee v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Spokane county, Sullivan, J., entered June 9, 1908, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing an action for damages.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
This action was begun by plaintiffs to recover damages. It was alleged in the complaint, that plaintiffs had effected the capture of one Ed. McDonald and one George Frankhauser, who had on the 12th day of September, 1907, unlawfully and feloniously stopped and robbed a mail and passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, from which valuable packages containing approximately the sum of $40,000 in lawful money of the United States had been taken; that rewards for the arrest and conviction of each of the guilty persons were offered, by the United States of America in the sum…
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