Cooper v. Southern Pacific Co.

Defendants appeal from a judgment after verdict in favor of plaintiff for $11,062- by reason of personal injuries and property damage resulting from a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and a locomotive tender of a train of defendant company. Defendants Fowler and Carter were company employees and train operatives. At the proper times defendants’ motions for directed verdict and for a new trial were denied.

The principal contentions made here are that the verdict is entirely unsupported by the evidence, and that as a matter of law defendants were free from negligence and that plaintiff…