Gier v. Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and from an order refusing a new trial. W. H. Clark, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Appeals from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.
Plaintiff, a conductor upon one of defendant’s electric cars, was injured under the following circumstances: He had stopped his car and gone ahead to turn a switch to permit the passage of his car from one track to the other. He turned the switch, standing while doing so, in the Y-shaped space made by the switch track and the main line. Another car coming up had stopped on the main line just behind him. At this moment his. own car was moved forward by its motorman. The plaintiff was caught between the cars in the wedge-shaped…
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