Court Opinion

ID: 9564533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:02:24.01451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:28.371533
License: Public Domain

DOOLING, J.
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment. I am not satisfied however that if it was error to exclude the operating rules of the company we should assume on appeal in support of the judgment that the jury found the defendants guilty of negligence. As pointed out in the main opinion the verdict may as well be attributed to a jury finding that defendants were not negligent, a result that might not have been arrived at if the operating rules had been admitted. In a close case, assuming that the operating rules were properly admissible, their exclusion, in my judgment, would require a reversal. On the record, however, the proof of plaintiff’s contributory negligence is so convincing (although because of his youth he may not be held guilty of negligence as a matter of law) that no miscarriage of justice can be said to have resulted from this ruling. (Cal. Const., art. VI, § 4½.) I prefer to place my concurrence on that point upon this ground.