Murray v. Southern Pacific Co.

On March 23, 1945, at about 6 :50 p. m., appellant was severely injured when he was struck by a slow-moving switch engine as he was walking along Fourth Street across the Southern Pacific tracks in San Francisco. Fourth Street runs north and south, and crosses the tracks at right angles. The tracks lie between King Street on the south and Townsend on the north, terminate in the Southern Pacific station located at Third and Townsend Streets and are numbered from 15 to 1, track 15 being nearest King Street.

Appellant, a member of the San Francisco Fire Department, had on many occasions used this…