Cole v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 82 Wash. 322
• 144 P. 34
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1500

Syllabus

<p>Railroads- — -Accidents at Crossings — Contributory Negligence. A boy, sixteen years of age, struck and killed at a double track railroad crossing, is guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, precluding any recovery by his representatives, where it appeared that decedent was riding a bicycle “quite fast,” and slowed down to allow a south-bound train on the far track to pass over the crossing; that decedent did not stop or look for a train on the near track, and as soon as the first train had passed, he rode onto the near track and was instantly struck by a north-bound train on that track, such approaching train being in full view in ample time to have avoided it, if the least attention had been paid to it.</p>