McKinney
McKinney v. Red Top Cab Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
About 5 o’clock on the afternoon of June 27, 1928, plaintiff and her eleven year old daughter were being conveyed from plaintiff’s home on Sanchez Street, San Francisco, to the Southern Pacific station at Third and Townsend Streets, in a taxicab owned by the defendant corporation and driven by the defendant Maloney, intending to entrain for Los Angeles at 6:15 P. M. At the intersection of Fourteenth and Howard Streets a collision occurred between the taxicab and another automobile. The taxicab was overturned, but was immediately righted by the driver and bystanders; and as a result of the collision and in righting the taxicab plaintiff was injured. She was removed at once to the Central Emergency Hospital and there given first aid, whereupon she summoned another taxicab and contrary to the advice of the surgeon at the hospital, was driven to the station and boarded the night train for Los Angeles. Her brother met her at the station in Los Angeles the following morning and she was placed under the care of Dr. Earl Eames. She remained in Los Angeles under the care of Dr. Eames for eight days and then, on July 6, 1928, returned to San Francisco, where she received certain medical and…