DAVEE v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO.

Docket No. S.F. 21052.

58 Cal.2d 572 (1962)

375 P.2d 293

25 Cal. Rptr. 445

DAVID HENRY DAVEE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCarthy & Crow, Cornish & Cornish, Francis T. Cornish, Dodge, Evans, Reyes, Brorby & Driscoll, Patrick J. McCarthy and Robert P. Brorby for Plaintiff and Appellant.

G. Blandin Colburn, Jr., and Dunne, Dunne & Phelps for Defendant and Respondent.


WHITE, J.

This is an appeal by plaintiff David Henry Davee from a judgment for his employer, defendant Southern Pacific Company, in an action prosecuted under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq.) for injuries sustained by Davee in the course of his employment.

Plaintiff is an experienced bridge carpenter. He sustained injuries on January 7, 1958, when he fell approximately 5 feet from a pier on which he had been standing while...

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