Legal Opinion
Meyers v. Southern Pacific Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 23, 1923No. Civ. No. 4179PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHouser, J.
The matter before the court herein is an appeal by the defendant Southern Pacific Company from an order granting a new trial. The order granting the motion for a new trial, from which the appeal is taken, is in the words following: “The motion for new trial, heretofore submitted, at this time it is ordered, that the motion for a new trial be and is hereby granted on the sole ground that the court left the question of common enterprise to the jury and did not instruct the jury that the negligence of the driver could not be imputed to the plaintiff.”
On the evening of February 2, 1921, between 9…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Thompson v. Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1913
- Cotton v. Willmar & Sioux Falls Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Bryant v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1917
- St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. BellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
- Bresee v. Los Angeles Traction Co.California Supreme Court · 1906
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Martindale v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Raliway Co.California Court of Appeal · 1948
- Coleman v. BentSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
- Tice v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.California Court of Appeal · 1939
- W. W. Clyde & Co. v. DyessCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1942
- Williamson v. FitzgeraldCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1931
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