Matthew v. Central Pacific Railroad
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order refusing a new trial. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court
1Per curiam
Action for damages. The complaint charges that on the 11th of March, 1880, the plaintiff, Nancy Matthew, was a passenger in a passenger coach in one of the -defendant’s trains of cars en route from Sacramento to Los Angeles, and *451that while at a station on the line of the road she was, by the negligent starting of the train, violently thrown to the floor of the car, thereby receiving great and permanent injuries. The plaintiffs are the said Haney Matthew, and her husband, Francis M. Matthew,
The ground of the action is the wife’s personal injuries. The cause of action is hers. The husband was…
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