McFadden v. Santa Ana, Orange, & Tustin Street Railway
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Vanclief, C.
Action for damages alleged to have been sustained by a personal injury to the wife alone, through the negligence of defendant.
On May 26, 1888, the defendant was a corporation owning and operating a street-railroad running east and west through the center of Fourth Street, in the city of Santa Ana, in Los Angeles County. On that day it caused an excavation to be made in that street about six feet wide, fifty feet long, and ten inches in depth, on the north side of the railway, parallel with it, and about six feet from it, for the purpose of constructing a switch or *466turn-out, to be…
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