Williams v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by Herbert Williams, plaintiff, in an action against Southern Pacific Railroad Company and California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation from a judgment against plaintiff and for both defendants, entered after the circuit court sustained defendants’ motions for directed verdicts at the close of plaintiff’s evidence.

Plaintiff, an employee of a trucking company engaged in unloading a railroad boxcar carrying sugar, fell and was injured while attempting to enter the boxcar. The car had been loaded and prepared for shipment by defendants. The charge of…