Legal Opinion
Williams v. McDowell
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 31, 1939No. Civ. 2246PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarnard, P. J.
This is an action brought under section 377, Code of Civil Procedure, for damages on account of a death resulting from an automobile collision.
About 10:30 P. M. on December 19,1936, the defendant McDowell was driving south from Bakersfield on U. S. Highway 99 in a truck and trailer owned by his employer, the defendant Powell. The trailer was loaded with chickens, piled four crates high. At a point some eighteen miles south of Bakersfield one of the wheels of the trailer came off and McDowell parked the outfit with a part of the trailer extending upon the paved portion of the highway. About…
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- Gilmore v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.California Supreme Court · 1930
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- Foerster v. DireitoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1946
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