Shaw v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.

Washington Supreme Court
Shaw v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co., 105 Wash. 232 (Wash. 1919)
177 P. 687; 1919 Wash. LEXIS 533
Mitchell

Shaw v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.

Opinion of the Court

Mitchell, J.

William Shaw was killed in a collision between an automobile in which he was riding *233and a passenger train operated by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, a corporation. Celia Elizabeth Shaw, the Surviving wife of William Shaw, instituted this suit to recover damages. A jury trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant, upon which a judgment of dismissal was entered after denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

In her appeal we are not furnished with any statement of facts or hill of exceptions certified to by the trial judge. Appellant asks us to review certain instructions given to the jury, to which she saved exceptions, which are brought here by a transcript certified to by the clerk of'the trial court. Upon this condition of the record, the respondent moves to dismiss the appeal and affirm the judgment. The motion must be granted on the authority of Morgan v. Bankers’ Trust Co., 63 Wash. 476, 115 Pac. 1047; and Weld v. Wheeler, 90 Wash. 178, 155 Pac. 748.

The appeal is dismissed and the judgment affirmed.

Main, C. J., Mackintosh, Tolman, and Chadwick, JJ., concur.

Reference

Full Case Name
Celia Elizabeth Shaw v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company
Cited By
2 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Appeal (263, 267)—Records—Statement op Pacts-—Necessity— Evidence—Instructions. In the absence of a bill of exceptions or statement of facts, error in instructions to the jury cannot be considered and the judgment will be affirmed and the appeal dismissed.