STOUT v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC R.R. CO.

Docket Nos. 19920, 19221.

127 Cal.App.2d 491 (1954)

274 P.2d 194

JAMES FREDERICK STOUT et al., Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Defendants; SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents. JO ANN RUSSELL et al., Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Defendants; SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

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

September 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel P. Young for Appellants.

C.W. Cornell, O.O. Collins, John R. Allport and Clyde C. Beery for Respondents.


FOX, J.

In these two consolidated wrongful death actions, plaintiffs (in the Russell case, the widow and five minor children; in the Stout case, the widow and two minor children) appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict denying them recovery from defendant Southern Pacific Company and its motorman, defendant F.P. Kistler, for the deaths of James B. Russell and Fred Stout as the result of a collision between...

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