Sweeney v. Central Pacific Railroad
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order granting a new trial, in the Fourteenth District Court, County of Placer. Eeardan J. After the decision in Department, the appellant filed its petition that the appeal be reheard in Bank, and the application was denied.
1Opinion of the CourtMyrick, J.
Plaintiff’s husband was engineer and conductor of a construction train of defendant, and as such had been for some time, and was at the time of the occurrence herein spoken of, running the train on the road of defendant between Newcastle and *16New England Mills. The train had taken a load of gravel up the road, and having unloaded, was backing down to Auburn, to there meet an up-bound freight train. The train reached a point near Clipper Gap, and was running at an increased rate of speed: Sweeney was in charge of the train, and was on the forward car, as backing down, the engine being at the…
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