Dickinson v. Southern Pacific Co.
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Action to recover damages for the alleged negligent killing of plaintiff's intestate. The defendants are railway corporations, the one owning and the other operating under lease a line of steam railway running through the city of Bakersfield. A train of said line ran into a buggy which the decedent, Samuel Dickinson, was driving, and Dickinson was instantly killed.
Judgment went in favor of the plaintiff for $10,230. From this judgment, and from an order denying their motion for a new trial, the defendants appeal.
There is no room to doubt that the evidence warranted the jury in finding that…
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