Wagner v. United Railroads of San Francisco

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment and from an order denying its motion for a new trial. The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff as the result of a collision between one of defendant’s cars and a sand-wagon driven by plaintiff.

The defendant operates a street railway on Ellis street, in San Francisco; and on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1907, at about 3 o’clock in the morning, as the plaintiff was driving a loaded sand-wagon along Mason street in a southerly direction across Ellis street, the wagon was struck just back of the…