Kimball v. Northern Electric Co.

This is an action for damages for injuries received in a collision between two of defendant’s trains. The court, sitting without a jury, gave judgment in favor of plaintiff for forty-one hundred dollars and costs of suit. From this judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial defendant appeals.

The appellant corporation was operating an electric line between Sacramento and Chico. The ears were moved generally by an electric current introduced through a third rail, but in cities and villages the “trolley system” was used. The “trolley zone” through the village of Live…