Hinkle v. Southern Pacific Co.

THE COURT.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries suffered by plaintiffs, husband and wife, as a result of a collision between their automobile and a train of the defendant railroad company at a highway crossing. The conductor of the train, Rablin, was joined as a defendant. Other members of the train crew were named in the complaint as First Doe, Second Doe and Third Doe, but were never served with summons. The complaint charged that the said defendants, and each of them, “so negligently operated, conducted and ran a certain train owned by the defendant, Southern Pacific Company,…