Kalberg v. Seattle Electric Co.

Citations

• 37 Wash. 612
• 79 P. 1101
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 779

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Stkeet Railways — Negligence as to Tracks — -Contributory Negligence oe Passenger in Crossing Track at Improper Place. One who alights at a street car platform, and attempts in the dark to cross the tracks diagonally at a point where they were raised above the level of the ground, and where there Was no dedicated or worked roadway, must he held to he guilty of contributory negligence in tripping on the street car rail, where she is familiar with the place 'and dangers, and there was another way by a planked crossing which she could, and sometimes did, use to cross the tracks to her home.</p>