Hammond

Hammond v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

Good Law
1917 Cal. App. LEXIS 541·32 Cal. App. 756·164 P. 50
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaFebruary 8, 1917Civ. No. 2205.California2,247 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Conrey, J.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, who was hit by a ear of the defendant while she was crossing a street in the city of Pasadena. Fair Oaks Avenue runs north and south and is intersected by California Street. The defendant has a double-track railroad on each of those streets. Its interurban cars run on Fair Oaks Avenue and some of its north-bound cars turn east on California Street at that intersection. Some of its local cars run westerly on California Street from Fair Oaks Avenue. The plaintiff was a passenger coming from Los Angeles, and as such passenger she received a transfer entitling her to go west on a California Street car. The north-bound two-car train from Los Angeles, on which she was a passenger, stopped at California Street and then turned east on that street. The plaintiff alighted from the rear car of the train at a point about one hundred feet south of California Street. A west California Street car was waiting on the west side of Fair Oaks Avenue to receive passengers. This was at 6 o’clock in the evening on January 29, 1912. When she alighted from the steps of her car on the east side thereof, she looked north…

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