Cordiner
Cordiner v. Los Angeles Traction Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sitaw, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while lawfully riding on a street-car operated by the Los Angeles Traction Company, one of the defendants.
The Los Angeles Traction Company owned a street-car line on Sixteenth street, in Los Angeles, over which it was running its cars in carrying passengers; the Los Angeles Railway Company owned and operated a street-car line on Grand avenue, in said city.
On January 31, 1903, a collision occurred at the intersection of West Sixteenth street and South Grand avenue between the car of the Los Angeles Traction Company, on which plaintiff was a westbound passenger on said Sixteenth street, and a north-bound car of defendant Los Angeles Railway Company on said Grand avenue, which collision, it is charged, was due to the negligence and want of care of the servants of said defendants, and wherein, as a result of said collision, plaintiff was violently thrown from the car of the Los Angeles Traction Company, on which she was riding as a passenger, by reason whereof she sustained injuries, for which, upon the trial, she had judgment against defendants for damages in the sum of $5,000. Both defendants…