WOOD v. CHICAGO M. ST. P. & P.R. CO.

No. 32633.

45 Wn.2d 601 (1954)

277 P.2d 345

WILLIAM P. WOOD, Respondent, v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

November 26, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Skeel, McKelvy, Henke, Evenson & Uhlmann and Altha P. Curry, for appellant.

John H. Kirkwood and John W. Schumacher, for respondent.


FINLEY, J.

This is an action for damages resulting from a collision between plaintiff's automobile (proceeding in a generally northerly direction on primary state highway No. 13) and a freight train of defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company (standing on railway tracks which cross the highway in a generally easterly and westerly direction). The railway crossing (scene of the accident) is approximately one hundred seventy...

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