Roller v. Sutter St. R.R.

Citations

• 66 Cal. 230
• 5 P. 108
• 1884 Cal. LEXIS 739

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—Street Railroad—Killing Child—Instruction.—The action was for damages for killing a child by running over it with a dummy engine of the defendant. The court instructed the jury that “ the verdict must be for the defendant, unless the evidence establishes that the death of the child was caused by want of ordinary care on the part of the agent of the defendant in the management of the dummy and car, and that the person in whose care the child was placed when the parents left the house took all proper precautions for its safety.” Held, that the instruction was proper.</p>