SHIRK v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

Docket No. 7798.

103 Cal.App.2d 97 (1951)

229 P.2d 100

FANNIE SHIRK et al., Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hildebrand, Bills & McLeod, Russell W. Federspiel, Hoge, Pelton & Gunther, Leo V. Killion and Reginald M. Watt for Appellants.

Devlin, Devlin & Diepenbrock and Horace B. Wulff for Respondents.


ADAMS, P.J.

Fannie Shirk and Maxine G. Hamilton, surviving widow and daughter, respectively, of Darrell Leroy Shirk, deceased, brought this action against the Southern Pacific Company, as owner and operator of a certain train, and William M. Packard as engineer of the locomotive, to recover damages alleged to have been suffered as the result of the accidental death of Shirk, charging negligence on the part of defendants.

A jury was impaneled to try the case...

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