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DAGGETT v. ATCHISON, T. & S.F. RY. CO.

Docket No. L.A. 24392.

48 Cal.2d 655 (1957)

313 P.2d 557

JOHN S. DAGGETT, Respondent; PAUL R. SMITH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 21, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin M. Belli, William F. Reed and Edwin M. Rosendahl for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Robert W. Walker, Richard K. Knowlton and Luce, Forward, Kunzel & Scripps for Defendants and Appellants.

Melvin M. Belli, William F. Reed, Edwin M. Rosendahl, Fitz-Gerald Ames, Sr., Lou Ashe, James Boccardo, David Casey, Ben C. Cohen, Robert Ford, Downey A. Grosenbaugh, Holt, Macomber & Graham, Leland V. Lazarus, Raoul Magana, Jack G. McBride, John W. McInnis, Herbert Resner and Ryan & Ryan for Respondent.

Peter C. Morris, Martin B. Berman, William P. Camusi, John Carter, S.M. Dana, Robert F. Diekman, John M. Ennis, Leo Fried, Myron L. Garon, Ned Good, Jerry Giesler, Irving H. Green, Vernon Humber, Hirson & Horn, John R. Inderrieden, Danny R. Jones, Elmer Low, Paul Madden, Mahedy & Schall, Munnell, Shelandor & Mullendore, Denver C. Peckinpah, Samuel B. Picone, Pollock & Pollock, Theodore W. Rosenak, Samuel A. Rosenthal, Harriet Ross, Edgar Simon, Eugene E. Sax, Edward Spraker, John Moran and Jesse E. Nichols as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

CARTER, J.

Defendants, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, G.H. Benton (motorman), and Irwin M. Pike (conductor) appeal from a judgment in favor of John S. Daggett for the loss of his two minor children in an action arising out of a collision between one of defendant's passenger trains and an automobile driven by Paula Smith Daggett, who died in the same accident, at a railway crossing in Solana Beach. Olga...

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