Durkee v. Central Pacific Railroad
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from Superior Court, County of Alameda.
1Opinion of the CourtMcKEE, J.
On the 2d of July, 1876, M. W. Durkee, a boy four or five years old, was run over by an engine belonging to and used at the time in the service of the corporation defendant. To recover damages for the personal injuries *600sustained by the boy on that occasion this suit was brought by his guardian ad litem against the railroad company, on the ground that the injuries were caused by the negligence of the company’s engineer while driving the engine, which was attached to a train of cars running on the railroad from San Jose to Niles, in Alameda county. The evidence in the case tended to show that,…
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