Legal Opinion

Ralph v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

Idaho Supreme Court

Decided March 23, 1960No. 8778PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*244SMITH, Justice.

Plaintiffs, appellants, instituted this action to recover general and special damages arising from a collision between appellants’ automobile operated by Beatrice Ralph and a train of respondent railroad company. The accident occurred about 1:15 o’clock a. m., October 18, 1957, at a crossing approximately seven and one-half miles southwest of Twin Falls, on U. S. Highway 93.

At the conclusion of the evidence the trial court denied defendants’, respondents’, motion for a directed verdict. The cause having been submitted, the jury returned a verdict of $10,000 in favor of…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Railroad Company v. HoustonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Wheeler v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1909
  3. Ineas v. Union Pac. R. Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1952
  4. Laidlaw v. BarkerIdaho Supreme Court · 1956
  5. Hobbs v. Union Pacific R. R. Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1940

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Mann v. Safeway Stores, Inc.Idaho Supreme Court · 1974
  2. Taylor v. HerboldIdaho Supreme Court · 1971
  3. Pigg v. BrockmanIdaho Supreme Court · 1963
  4. Kuhn v. DellIdaho Supreme Court · 1965
  5. Walton v. Potlatch Corp.Idaho Supreme Court · 1989

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