Taylor v. Western Pacific Railroad
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, County of Alameda. The defendant was the owner of a railroad extending from the City of Oakland, Alameda County, to Sacramento, a distance of about' one hundred and thirty miles. The San Francisco and Alameda Eailroad Company owned a railroad extending from Alameda, Alameda County, to Haywards, a distance of about twenty miles.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, County of Alameda. The defendant was the owner of a railroad extending from the City of Oakland, Alameda County, to Sacramento, a distance of about' one hundred and thirty miles. The San Francisco and Alameda Eailroad Company owned a railroad extending from Alameda, Alameda County, to Haywards, a distance of about twenty miles. Alameda and Oakland are both on the Bay of San Francisco, across from the City of San Francisco, and Alameda is about two miles south of Oakland. At Simpson’s Station, about four miles from Oakland, the two…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
In impaneling the jury in this case the Clerk drew from the jury box the names of twelve persons as jurors, all of whom appeared and were examined as to their competency. Three of them were challenged for cause, and the challenges were allowed. The Court then required the parties, if they desired to challenge peremptorily one or more of the remaining nine jurors, to do it at that stage of the proceeding, and before the panel was filled by calling three additional jurors for examination in place of those who had been challenged for cause. The counsel for the…
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