Grover v. Sharp & Fellows Contracting Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment founded on a verdict for defendants in an action brought by plaintiff, the mother of James M. Roe, to recover damages for his death in a collision between an automobile owned by him in which he was riding, with John Wolbert as driver, and an empty flat car being operated by the employees of Sharp and Fellows Contracting Company. The accident happened at about 8 p. m. on December 21, 1942.

The cause has been here before (Grover v. Sharp and Fellows Contracting Co., 66 Cal.App.2d 736 [153 P.2d 83].) At the first trial the jury returned a verdict in favor of…