Jordan v. Seattle Renton & Southern Railway Co.

Citations

• 47 Wash. 503
• 92 P. 284
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 797

Syllabus

<p>Carriers—Injuries to Passengers—Degree op Care—Instructions. It is proper to instruct that a street railway company, operating by electricity in the carriage of passengers, must use “the highest degree of care, skill, and diligence practicable, consistent with the operation” and it is liable for “the slightest negligence in said operation,” as the latter is but a corollary of the former.</p> <p>Same—Pleading—Presumptions. Where a complaint alleges negligence in general terms in the operation of street cars, which collided, without specifying any particular act, the presumption of negligence arises from the fact of the collision, and is not waived by the general form of the allegation.</p> <p>Damages—Personal Injuries—Excessiveness. A verdict for $500 cannot be said to be influenced by passion or prejudice, where a passenger in a street car collision was knocked down and rendered unconscious, received a cut in the hand, sprained wrist, and bruised leg and knee, and was confined to his home for some considerable time.</p>