Dawson v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Frank Karr, R. C. Gortner, A. W. Ashburn, Jr., and W. R. Millar, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. A verdict was returned and judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying its motion for a new trial.
The defendant, an electric railway company, was engaged in loading bundles of shakes upon two of its flat-cars, on a wharf at Redondo Beach, in Los Angeles County. The shakes were unloaded from a vessel lying at the wharf. They were first hoisted to the wharf. For this part of the work use was made…
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