Commonwealth Bonding & Casualty Insurance v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

The plaintiff corporation was the insurer of the Los Angeles Daily Express Company upon its liability to its employees under the workmen’s compensation law, and brought this action to recover from the defendant Pacific Electric Railway Company, for damages caused by the collision of one of the latter’s electric street-cars with a motortruck of the Express Company, on which one George L. Makley was riding, and which was driven by a fellow-workman, Penn Hart. Both of these men were employees of the Express Company. Makley was thrown from the motor ear by the collision and had both legs cut off…