Teakle v. San Pedro, L. A. & S. L. R.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Third District; before Justice T. D'. Lewis. Action by Nellie Teakle, as administratrix of tbe estate of Tbomas W. Teakle, deceased, against tbe San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. From a, judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. appellant’s points.
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Appeal from District Court, Third District; before Justice T. D'. Lewis. Action by Nellie Teakle, as administratrix of tbe estate of Tbomas W. Teakle, deceased, against tbe San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. From a, judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. appellant’s points. The evidence sought to be introduced by these questions and offer was clearly competent to show that the defendant had a last chance of avoiding the accident regardless of an}’ negligence that may be imputed to the deceased. Since the time of Davies v. Mann the. courts unanimously have upheld this…
1Opinion of the CourtSteaup, J.
Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for the death of her intestate, alleged to have been caused through the negligence of the defendant. The accident occurred at Salt Lake City, between First North and North Temple streets, in the railroad yard of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, along and over the tracks of which the defendant operated its cars. The yard and tracks were not inclosed, and extended in a southeasterly and northwesterly direction for several blocks, and had been traveled by numerous persons in going to and from their work, and had been generally used and…
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