Stackpole v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Marin County. Benjamin K. Knight, Judge Presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtOlney, J.
This is an action by the father of a minor son to recover damages for the latter’s death alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. At the trial a nonsuit was granted at the close of the evidence for the plaintiff and judgment entered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.
The motion for nonsuit was upon two grounds. The first was that it appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff’s son was killed while in the employ of one Price, and the plaintiff had collected from the insurance carrier for Price the amount to which, as the decedent’s father, he was entitled…
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