Weksi v. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.

Citations

• 86 Wash. 404
• 150 P. 443
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1004

Syllabus

<p>Cashiers — -Injuries to Passengers — Setting Down Passengers— •Negligence — -Instructions. In an action by a passenger on a street car, injured by tbe sudden starting of the car while he was alighting, it is error to instruct the jury that the defendant was liable for the slightest degree of negligence and that it was the duty of the defendant to deliver the plaintiff safely at his destination; and the error is not cured by further correct instructions as to defendant’s liability in case the conductor, knowing that plaintiff was alighting, or by the exercise of extraordinary care could have known it, started the car while plaintiff was alighting and injured him.</p>