Morgan v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding willful and malicious conduct despite argument that “there was no evidence of prior accidents in the area and, therefore, there was no actual knowledge of possible peril to pedestrians.”
• “willful or wanton misconduct,” “recklessness,” “reckless disregard,” and combinations thereof all identify “ ‘an aggravated form of negligence, differing in quality rather than degree from ordinary lack of care’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).