Williams v. Southern Pacific Company
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Foshay Walker, and Mastick, Van Fleet & Mastick, for Appellant. The evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict, the only negligence which proximately caused the injury being that of fellow-servants employed by the same employer. (Stevens v. San Francisco etc.
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The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Foshay Walker, and Mastick, Van Fleet & Mastick, for Appellant. The evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict, the only negligence which proximately caused the injury being that of fellow-servants employed by the same employer. (Stevens v. San Francisco etc. R. R. Co., 100 Cal. 554; Daves v. Southern Pacific Co., 98 Cal. 19;1 Long v. Coronado R. R. Co., 96 Cal. 269; Congrave v. Southern Pacific R. R. Co., 88 Cal. 360; Fagundes v. Central Pacific R. R. Co., 79 Cal. 97; Brown v. Central Pacific R. R. Co., 72 Cal. 523.) The failure to…
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
—This is an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received in a collision between two trains. Plaintiff recovered a verdict of fourteen thousand dollars, and the appeal is by defendant from a refusal of a new trial.
The collision was on the Coast Division, a little west of San Ardo station, between a pay train and a freight train. The latter was going north, or in railroad vernacular, west,— meaning towards San Francisco. The pay train was, of course, going east, or from San Francisco.
The collision, according to plaintiff’s evidence, was about 2,150 feet west of the…
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