Gett v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment upon verdict in favor of the plaintiff in an action for damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband, resulting from his being struck and run over by a motor-truck. Plaintiff’s contention was that the defendant was negligent in suddenly stopping its street-car in such manner as to block the passageway of the oncoming truck, thus compelling the latter to turn suddenly to the right and to collide with the decedent. This appeal is upon the grounds of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the implied findings of defendant’s negligence and of decedent’s…