Simmons v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

Plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, brought this action to recover damages for injuries suffered by the wife in a collision between an electric interurban car operated by the defendant Railway Company and an autobus or jitney operated by a servant of the defendant Walker—a carrier of passengers for hire. Mrs. Simmons was a passenger on the autobus. Walker and the Railway Company were made defendants on the theory that the negligence of each concurred in causing the injury. The jury returned a verdict against both defendants, who, upon different records, present separate appeals from the…