Puckhaber v. Southern Pacific Co.

—This is an action for damages by the parents, based upon the death of a son, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant. The facts of the case are of the most meager character. Upon a dark and foggy morning, about half-past five o’clock, the mutilated dead body of this young man, a total stranger in the village, was found lying upon a side-track in the railroad yards of defendant at Rocklin. His body was discovered near the dead body of another man, also a stranger in the village. There were no witnesses to any accident. It is claimed by plaintiffs that deceased was killed by…