Watson v. Southern Pacific Co.

This appeal comes from the Superior Court of Maricopa County by the administrator of the estate of Victor Cortez from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, the action having been brought by the administrator to recover damages for the death of Victor Cortez resulting from an injury sustained on April 22, 1941, while Cortez was employed by the Southern Pacific Company. Cortez, who was fifty-seven years of age, worked for said company off and on for approximately twenty-three years. Death followed said injury in the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix on April 27, 1941.

The case was tried before…