Legal Opinion
Gates v. Wendling Nathan Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 25, 1938No. Civ. No. 1880PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAINES, J., pro tem.
On September 20, 1934, one Elmer Gates, who was at the time superintendent of the pole yard of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation at Fresno, was killed in an accident which occurred there in the course of the unloading of a truck and trailer, belonging to respondent R. 0. Deacon Lumber Company and operated by respondents Dewey and Farrar. Gates was killed by being pinned between a load of lumber which slipped sideways from off the rear end of the trailer and a pile of cross-arm lumber which lay a few feet away from the trailer on that side.
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