Legal Opinion

Miller v. Utah Light & Traction Co.

Utah Supreme Court

Decided January 3, 1939No. 6023PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LARSON, Justice.

Plaintiff brought this action in the District Court of Salt Lake County, to recover a judgment for damages for personal injuries. At the close of the evidence the court directed verdict for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error. The action grows out of the following facts: Defendant maintains and operates a street railway system in Salt Lake City. It operates electric street cars, lories propelled by electric current from the wires but running on rubber tires instead of tracks, and gasoline motor buses. Extending north and south along Main Street are double street car tracks.…

2Cases cited42 opinions

  1. Newton v. Oregon Short Line RailroadUtah Supreme Court · 1913
  2. Southern Railway Co. v. WaltersSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  3. McGlauflin v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
  4. Ryan v. TrenkleSupreme Court of Iowa · 1927
  5. Haarstrich v. Oregon Short Line R. Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1927

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. United States v. Jeffrey Richard PowellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
  2. Arenson v. ButterworthSupreme Court of Iowa · 1952
  3. Ferguson v. Kansas City Public Service Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1945
  4. Elder, Receiver v. Rutledge, Admx.Indiana Supreme Court · 1940
  5. Harrington v. Portland Traction Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1942

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