McNulty v. Southern Pacific Co.

This appeal was taken from a judgment entered on a verdict for $100,000 in an action for personal injuries. A motion for new trial was denied.

The plaintiff, a commuter living at Millbrae, was a fare-paying passenger aboard train 106 which left the Third and Townsend depot in San Francisco about 12:31 a. m. on January 17,1947. The train consisted of the locomotive and tender pulling six cars, the first being “deadheads” or empties, the next two being passenger coaches then in use as such and lighted, and the last ear being a “deadhead,” unlighted, passenger coach. On that trip Millbrae,…