Southern Pac. Co. v. Wright
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trippet, Judge. Action by Gertrude Wright and others against the Southern Pacific Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
On May 22, 1914, George R. Wright, while ¡riding, upon an auto truck, was instantly killed at a railroad crossing in Selma, Cal., in a collision between the truck and the engine of a passenger train operated by the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the Railroad Company. Defendants in error, the surviving wife and children of the deceased, had judgment in the lower court for $12,000 damages, to reverse which the Railroad Company prosecutes this writ of error.
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