Bohn v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

The defendant owned and operated an electric railway line running from the city of Los Angeles through the town of Compton to Long Beach. It appears without conflict in the evidence that on September 12, 1904, the defendant was running a car at the usual rate of speed north on Wilmington street in said town of Compton, and when approaching Main street, which crosses said Wilmington street, one Peter Bohn appeared in a vehicle, to which was hitched a team of horses which he was driving south along said Wilmington street parallel with and on the west side of defendant’s trades. The car, running…