Trulsson v. Southern Pacific Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the defendant’s favor after the granting of a motion for nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff’s ease.

The action was one to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant. The facts of the case are these: The plaintiff, who at the time of the injuries complained of was, and for a period of between two and three years prior thereto had been, a resident of Palo Alto, had, on the thirteenth day of March, 1917, purchased a commutation-ticket book which entitled him to a first-class daily passage upon the…