White v. Peninsular, Railway Co.

Citations

• 20 Wash. 132
• 54 P. 999
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 483

Syllabus

<p>CARRIERS—INJURY TO LICENSEE—CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE.</p> <p>Where a logging train carries passengers without charge, and requires them to ride upon a flat-car, a licensee who seats himself upon the chain box on' the rear of the engine-tender, though warned against riding there by a brakeman and by a notice conspicuously posted, cannot recover for injuries received through the negligence of the railway company in precipitating its train through a burning trestle, when the passengers riding upon the flat-car escaped uninjured, by jumping at the time of the accident.</p>