Baker v. Tacoma Eastern Railway Co.

Citations

• 44 Wash. 575
• 87 P. 826
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 881

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Death at Crossing — Contributory Negligence oe Pedestrian — Duty to Look and Listen. A railroad employee familiar with the locality, and experienced in the management of cars there, who was run down and killed by the backing of a logging train at a city street crossing, is guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, where it appears that the place was a network of seven or eight tracks, being the intersection of two railroads, that at the time two or three engines were coming from the roundhouse of one company, ringing hells and blowing off steam, and that the deceased, with his attention on the engines in view, undertook to cross the tracks diagonally without stopping to look back or listen for the train coming from behind on the tracks of the other company; the doctrine that one must look and listen applying to city street crossings, and particularly to places of such great danger as the crossing in question.</p>