SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. MITCHELL

No. 6005.

80 Ariz. 50 (1956)

292 P.2d 827

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO., a corporation, and Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, Appellants, v. Birdie MITCHELL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

January 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyle, Bilby, Thompson & Shoenhair, by Harold C. Warnock and Richard B. Evans, Tucson, for appellants.

Barber, Lesher & Dees, Tucson, for appellee.


UDALL, Justice.

This action was brought by Birdie Mitchell (plaintiff-appellee), to recover damages for injuries arising as a result of a collision between an automobile, in which she was riding as a guest, and a backing train then owned and being used in switching operations by the defendant-appellant, Southern Pacific Company. The defendant-appellant, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, owns the right of way where the tracks are laid, and the Southern Pacific Company...

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