Dederichs v. Salt Lake City Railroad
Utah Supreme Court
'Appeal from the district court of the Third judicial district, Territory of Utah. Hon. S. A. Merritt, Judge. Action by Joseph Dedericks against the Salt Lake City Railroad Company to re coyer damages for an injury caused by an electric car. From a judgment on motion for a nonsuit plaintiff appeals. Cited: Riley v. Rapid Transit Co., 10 Utah 428; Booth’s Street Railway Law § 359; Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Ives, 144 U. S. 40S ; Jeffs v. R. G. W. Ry.
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'Appeal from the district court of the Third judicial district, Territory of Utah. Hon. S. A. Merritt, Judge. Action by Joseph Dedericks against the Salt Lake City Railroad Company to re coyer damages for an injury caused by an electric car. From a judgment on motion for a nonsuit plaintiff appeals. Cited: Riley v. Rapid Transit Co., 10 Utah 428; Booth’s Street Railway Law § 359; Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Ives, 144 U. S. 40S ; Jeffs v. R. G. W. Ry. Co., 9 Utah 374; Smith v. R. G. W. Ry. Co., 9 Id. 141; Hicks v. Citizens’ Ry. Co., 25 Lawyers’-Repts. Ann., 508, Ann. case; Connelly v. Trenton…
1Opinion of the Court
Miner, J,:
This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to appellant, claimed to have been occasioned bj the respondent in negligently running its electric street cars in the city of Salt Lake. It appears, in substance, from the testimony of the plantiff, that at about 5 or 6 o’clock in the afternoon, in October, 1891, he was driving a horse and wagon on Eighth East street in Salt Lake City, and had stopped to water his horse at a trough, situated about 40 feet north of the north line of Second South street, on Eighth East street, after which he moderately drove south on…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. IvesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Wines v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1893
- Riley v. Salt Lake Rapid Transit Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1894
- Woods v. Southern Pacific Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1893
- Smith v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1893
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Thompson v. Salt Lake Rapid Transit Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1898
- Hall v. Ogden City Street Railway Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1896
- Bayard v. Standard Oil Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1901
- SWEET v. Irrigation Canal Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1953
- Dederichs v. Salt Lake City RailroadUtah Supreme Court · 1896
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