Martin v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 87 Wash. 91
• 151 P. 113
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1055

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant—Negligence — Railroad Collision — Evidence—Sufficiency. The evidence is insufficient to sustain a verdict against a railroad company for the death of a conductor of a freight train, when a passenger train crashed into the caboose, where it appears that the freight train was behind time, and the conductor put out near a curve two torpedoes which were exploded by the passenger train, whereupon the engineer thereof complied with the rule in such case to reduce speed and look out for stop signal, by applying the “air” and slackening speed, and made every effort to stop when he saw the freight train ahead.</p>