Legal Opinion
Riolfo v. Market Street Railway Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 5, 1947No. Civ. No. 13110PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtDooling, J.
This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment entered on a verdict of a jury for defendants. Plaintiff sued for damages resulting from personal injuries received in a fall from the top of a garbage truck after being struck by the rope attached to the back of defendants’ trolley bus.
The defendant, Market Street Railway Company, operates an electric bus which draws current from two overhead electric wires by two trolley poles. There is a rope attached to the end of each trolley pole which extends down and is attached to the back of the bus in a box containing a reel and a spring so that the…
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