Rideau v. Los Angeles Transit Lines order (1954) 124 Cal.App.2d 466

Enjoy this work depicting the famous personal injury case taken place in Los Angeles, California. During this era that Los Angeles had functional public transportation, this Los Angeles streetcar driver rammed into to the back of tow-truck driver's truck, seriously damaging the vehicle and causing major back injuries to the driver. Defendant Los Angeles Transit argued that Plaintiff Rideau's spondylolisthesis wasn't caused by this particular incident but by another accident that Plaintiff had suffered six weeks prior. But defendant's own expert disagreed, testifying that, at the least, this accident had caused or, order at the least, caused aggravation to Plaintiff's injuries. Los Angeles Transit was held liable for proximately causing Rideau's injuries. As the Eggshell Doctrine goes, a defendant's damages are not limited by a plaintiff's fragility (i.e., their eggshell skull) but include any and all damages proximately and actually caused by the tortfeasor.

This work is one of three in the Eggshell Plaintiff Series.