Kemp v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is an action by Bessie Kemp against the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a corporation, to recover damages for a personal injury.
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From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is an action by Bessie Kemp against the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a corporation, to recover damages for a personal injury. The negligence charged in the complaint is to the effect that the defendant’s agents, though properly notified, failed to stop at the proper place an electric car on which the plaintiff, Mrs. Bessie Kemp, was a passenger; that without protecting her she was permitted by them to stand in a position where she was liable to sustain injury in preparing to alight…
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Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
It is maintained that an error was committed in denying a motion for a judgment of nonsuit. The defendant owns in Portland, Oregon, a system of street railways and operatesthereon electric cars. It maintains on the west side of the "Willamette River a double line of tracks extending from the business section of the city south on Third Street for quite a distance. The cars on such line, going in that direction, run on the west track and, in the vicinity of the accident, make regular stops only at alternate street crossings. The plaintiff at the time of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Savage v. SavageOregon Supreme Court · 1899
- Kearney v. Oregon R. & N. Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1911
- Salomon v. CressOregon Supreme Court · 1892
- West v. McDonaldOregon Supreme Court · 1913
- Young v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Sorenson v. KribsOregon Supreme Court · 1916
- State ex rel. Rudd v. RingoldOregon Supreme Court · 1921
- Kilkenny, Administrator v. BeebeOregon Supreme Court · 1948
- Marquess v. TaylorOregon Supreme Court · 1958