Alires v. Southern Pacific Company

LOCKWOOD, Justice.

This is a combined wrongful death and personal injury action wherein damages were sought for the deaths of the five adults and four children and serious permanent injuries sustained by an infant. All of the decedents as well as the surviving injured child were passengers in an . automobile which was involved in a collision with the Southern Pacific Golden State Limited passenger train at the 35th Avenue crossing in Phoenix at 11:50 P.M, on December 16, 1956..The case was first tried in 1958 resulting in verdicts and judgments in favor of the defendant railroad company and…