Lewis v. Southern Pacific Company

UDALL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment following a jury verdict in favor of the defendants, Southern Pacific Co., Inc., and Carl Ball, Dan W. Whitener and Claude William McCorkle, employees of the Southern Pacific Co., Inc., and from an order of the trial court denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff, Della Lewis, instituted this action for the wrongful death of her husband, John Washington Lewis, against Southern Pacific and its engineer, fireman and conductor who were operating the train which struck the decedent’s car at the Ninety-first Avenue crossing of…