Simmons

This appeal is by the defendant Pacific Electric Eailway Company, against whom and its codefendant Fred Walker a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for six thousand dollars was rendered. Appellant is a railway corporation operating a system of interurban electric ears between the cities of Santa Monica and Los Angeles. A part of its route is over Santa Monica Boulevard, in the city of Santa Monica. Appellant’s codefendant Walker, a carrier of passengers for hire, operates a system of jitneys or autobusses between Santa Monica and Los Angeles. On Santa Monica Boulevard, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Streets, an interurban car of the Eailway Company ran into the rear end of a bus operated by a servant of the defendant Walker, and in the collision the plaintiff Florence Simmons, who was a passenger on the bus, received injuries for which the jury awarded the verdict against both defendants. There was evidence to show that the motorman made no attempt to decrease the speed of his car until too late to avoid colliding with the bus. The general facts of the case are stated in the opinion this day filed in the appeal of the defendant Walker from the same judgment.

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