Beaird

This is an appeal from a judgment after verdict awarding respondents a total of $2,650 for damages arising from an automobile collision. The appeal is grounded upon alleged errors in instructing the jury relative to the intersection at which the collision took place and the denial of the right of appellants’ counsel to argue certain matters in closing argument. ■

The accident occurred at or near an uncontrolled intersection in Tulare County where Avenue 312, an east-west road, dead-ends into Road 220, a north-south road. At the time of the accident as one proceeded north on Road 220 its northerly course jogged several feet to the east at about its juncture with Avenue 312, and its paved surface narrowed a couple of feet from its original paved width of 22 feet. A sweeping 90-degree curve having a 150-foot radius led from the east edge of Road 220 into Avenue 312. Part of the outer edge of this curve formed the western edge of the jog in Road 220. This curve was slightly banked and had a readily apparent difference in its road surface from the portion of Road 220 that extended to the north while the surface to the south was the same as that in the curve. A more sharply rounded…