Hoyt v. Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority

FOURT, J.—

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants in an action involving a rear-end collision.

Appellant filed a complaint wherein she charged in effect, among other things, that the corporate defendant Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (hereinafter referred to as the Railroad) and Robert Livingston, a streetcar operator, had so negligently operated a streetcar as to cause it to collide with the rear portion of her automobile which she was driving; that further she had been severely injured as a consequence of the collision. The cause was tried before a jury.

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