TRUITT v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

Docket No. 14842.

112 Cal.App.2d 218 (1952)

245 P.2d 1083

ELMER H. TRUITT, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

July 15, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hildebrand, Bills & McLeod and D.W. Brobst for Appellant.

Arthur B. Dunne, and Dunne, Dunne & Phelps for Respondent.


GOODELL, J.

Plaintiff, a switchman, sued under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for personal injuries sustained while switching in respondent's yards at Eugene, Oregon. The action was prosecuted on the theory that respondent had not furnished appellant, its employee, a safe place in which to work.

The court granted a motion for nonsuit and from the judgment entered thereon this appeal was taken after a new trial had been denied.

The accident happened...

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