Lynch v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Card, J., entered September 15, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for personal injuries sustained by a railway engineer in a collision.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff, forty-six years old, a railroad engineer, for twenty years in the employ of the defendant the Northern Pacific Railway Company, was injured in a collision occurring on December 8, 1910. The negligence of the company is admitted, and to use the words of defendants’ counsel: “The only question to be determined is the extent of plaintiff’s injuries and the amount to be recovered therefor.”
Plaintiff suffered a Pott’s fracture of the left ankle, and a fracture of the outer plate of the frontal bone of the skull, and it is possible that the inner plate was also fractured. He was cut…
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