Fresno Traction Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County, and from an order refusing a new trial. H. Z. Austin, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. U. T. Clotfelter, James Gallagher, A. H. Van Cott, E. W. Camp, and Robert Brennan, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
Defendant appeals from a judgment for three thousand dollars by way of damages and from an order denying its motion for a new trial.
The cause was tried before a jury. Plaintiff and defendant are transportation companies. Their, tracks intersect at a street crossing in the city of Fresno and at that place, in the night-time, one of defendant’s trains backed into a car belonging to plaintiff, causing the damages for which judgment was given.
The complaint alleged that the injury to the property of the plaintiff was caused by the negligence of defendant’s employees in the operation of a freight…
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