PACIFIC PORTLAND CEMENT CO. v. BELLAMY

No. 12482.

187 F.2d 701 (1951)

PACIFIC PORTLAND CEMENT CO. v. BELLAMY.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

March 12, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leighton M. Bledsoe and Dana, Bledsoe & Smith, all of San Francisco, Cal. (R. S. Cathcart, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellant.

Herbert O. Hepperle, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Circuit Judge, and BOWEN and LEMMON, District Judges.


BOWEN, District Judge.

On April 4, 1949, appellee was in the employ of Southern Pacific Company as a brakeman on a freight train which was switching cars on spur tracks in the San Francisco Bay community of Redwood City.

While the train was so engaged at a curve on a railroad spur track alongside a public highway which was laid out on a curve conforming with that of the spur track, appellee, in order to accommodate his passing of visual hand signals between...

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