Hager v. Southern Pacific Co.

This is an action to recover damages for injuries to property (horses aud harness) resulting from a collision with a train of cars at a railroad crossing in the city of Oakland. A nonsuit was ordered by the trial court aud the plaintiff has appealed.

The accident occurred in the settled portion of the city. The train was going at the rate of thirty or thirty-five miles an *310hour, and the engineer was neither ringing the bell nor blowing the whistle, as required by the statute. The team injured consisted of six horses attached to a band wagon containing sixteen men. The train was a regular train…