Stueding v. Seattle Electric Co.

Citations

• 71 Wash. 476
• 128 P. 1058
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1348

Syllabus

<p>Street Railways — Accidents at Crossinqs — Contributory Negligence oe Pedestrians — Evidence—Sufficiency. The contributory negligence of a pedestrian, struck by a street car, precludes any recovery, as a matter of law, notwithstanding negligence on the part of the company in excessive speed, where it appears that he approached a street car crossing where a car was unloading passengers, with an unobstructed view of the far track where he could have seen an approaching car, that he did not look in that direction until near the standing car, which then obstructed his view, and walked rapidly behind the standing car 'without stopping to look, and was struck by the side or front end of a car passing on the other track.</p>