SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A last-minute witness jolted the trial of a man suing Amtrak and a Marysville hospital after his legs were cut off by a passing train as he lay on the tracks early on Christmas Eve 2016.
Joseph Nevis is suing Amtrak, Marysville’s Rideout Hospital and an emergency room doctor for $32 million over the incident, an event that occurred after Yuba City police found him on the street and had him taken to the hospital as being too intoxicated for jail.
Nevis has testified that he has no memory of what happened to him that night or how he ended up on the train tracks after leaving the hospital, but a family friend testified in Sacramento federal court Tuesday that Nevis told her years ago he was trying to kill himself.
