Carr v. Oregon-Washington R.R. Nav. Co.

Both parties have treated the law applicable to the foregoing facts as though this court has embraced that body of law frequently referred to by the name of turntable cases, the pioneer of which was Lynch v. Nurdin, 1 Q. B. 113 (Eng. Reprints, 1041), and which first received serious attention when the federal Supreme Court announced its decision in Sioux City P. R. Co. v. Stout, 17 Wall. 657 (21 L. Ed. 745). This court has many times dealt with groups of facts somewhat analogous to those embraced in the attractive nuisances cases but has never been compelled to squarely adopt or reject the…