Summary

Edward Douglass White Northern Pacific Company v. Babcock…

The first assignment of error is, we think, without merit. The language of the charge complained of is: 'Did it [the defendant company] fail to discharge any duty which the law imposed upon it for the safety of its employe, the plaintiff's intestate? If it did, and if such negligence was the cause of the death of the engineer, Munro, then the plaintiff is entitled to recover.' Separated from the context this general language might have misled, but, when considered in proper connection with the rest of the instruction given, it could not have done so.
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