Garner v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants in an action involving personal injuries received by plaintiff while in the course of using one of defendants’ railroad cars.

Plaintiff, a 43-year-old man, was employed by Kaiser Gypsum Company as a loader of cars at Kaiser’s gypsum plant in Long Beach. Defendants supplied railroad cars to Kaiser for Kaiser’s operations in the hauling and delivering of its gypsum products. Although the defendants are two separate companies, for the purposes of this opinion there seems to be no reason under the circumstances and the evidence which was…