Brown v. Central Pacific Railroad

SEARLS, C.

This is an action to recover damages by plaintiffs, the widow and children, as heirs, of Gilman George Brown, deceased, for the. death of the latter, through the alleged negligence of defendant, a railroad corporation. Plaintiffs had a verdict and judgment for ten thousand dollars and costs, from which judgment, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.

The decedent of plaintiffs was a conductor on the railroad of defendant, and, as such, left Los Angeles on the evening of April 7, 1877, in charge of a mixed train, consisting of over twenty cars, drawn by a locomotive…