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VINNELL CO. v. PACIFIC ELEC. RY. CO.

Docket No. L.A. 25377.

52 Cal.2d 411 (1959)

340 P.2d 604

VINNELL COMPANY, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent, v. PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 26, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.D. Yeomans, Edward A. Hume and James W. O'Brien for Appellant.

Thielen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, James W. Baldwin, Ernest R. Baldwin, Callaway, Kirtland & Packard and Wallace C. Reed for Respondent.

SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff Vinnell Company, Inc., in an action for damages caused when the defendant Pacific Electric Railway Company's locomotive and freight cars were switched into an open excavation maintained by the plaintiff while constructing a storm drain, the terminal end of which was in or under the defendant's Fairbanks service yard. By a cross-complaint the defendant seeks to recover damages caused to its equipment.

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