Criss v. Seattle Electric Co.

Citations

• 38 Wash. 320
• 80 P. 525
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1169

Syllabus

<p>Street Railways—Negligence—Injury to Pedestrian at Crossing—Contributory Negligence. A plaintiff struck by a street car is guilty of contributory negligence precluding a recovery, where it appears that he was walking diagonally across the track at a crossing of business streets in a city, driving a team of horses before him, in the evening after dark, and saw and heard a street car approaching down a steep grade, one block away, before he started to cross the track, that there was nothing to prevent his looking back and seeing the car as it approached, but that he paid no attention to it until it was upon him and too late to get out of the way.</p>