Ballard v. Sacramento Northern Railway Co.

The plaintiff had judgment based upon the second cause of action set out in her complaint, from which judgment the defendant appeals. The second cause of action in the complaint sets forth, after reciting preliminary matters showing the right of the plaintiff to maintain this action, that Charles K. Ballard was, on and prior to the eleventh day of November, 1930, a brakeman regularly employed by the defendant. That on the eleventh day of November, 1930, at Marysville, Yuba County, said Charles K. Ballard came to his death by being thrown from the top of a freight-car then and there being…