Fonts

Fonts v. Southern Pacific Co.

Good Law
1916 Cal. App. LEXIS 118·30 Cal. App. 633·159 P. 215
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 2, 1916Civ. No. 1468.California3,962 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Appellant has not pointed out any inaccuracy in the statement of facts as made by respondent, and it may be accepted substantially as the basis for a consideration of the legal questions argued by counsel. That statement, as far as any conflict exists, is the deduction from the testi many favorable to respondent, but, of course, no valid objection on that account can be urged to our according it full credit, since it is not inherently improbable. The action was on account of personal injuries received by plaintiff while in the employment of defendant in assisting in the removal of a steel shafting from a freight-ear to the station platform, and resulted in a judgment in his favor for three thousand dollars. Plaintiff was in the general employment of C. L. Best Gas Traction Company as a molder’s helper, and had been loaned to defendant for the special work in which he was engaged when injured. He had been employed for only a few days by said traction company before the accident occurred. Said shafting was about twenty-one and one-half feet long, six inches in diameter, and weighed about one thousand five hundred pounds. It was smooth and round and was to be used for axles for…

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