Hanton v. Pacific Electric Ry. Co.

This is an action for personal injuries. The case was twice tried before a jury, the first trial resulting in a mistrial; the second, in a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant, and plaintiff appeals from both this judgment and an order denying his motion for a new trial. The accident in which plaintiff was permanently injured by being run over by one of the cars of the defendant which he was endeavoring to board occurred in the city of Venice, Los Angeles County.

The grounds urged for a reversal are that the evidence was insufficient to justify a verdict for defendant; that the court…