Grant

This action is one for personal injuries arising from an accident which occurred at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Tenth Street in the city of Santa Monica, on October 7, 1932, at or about 6:20 P. M. At the time of the accident defendant Herndon Ryon, who was then a minor, was driving an automobile in a westerly direction on Wilshire Boulevard, north of the center line thereof, approximately 12 to 15 feet south of the northerly curb. Both headlights of the car were burning, and the automobile proceeded at a rate of 15 to 20 miles per hour. There was no fog, or rain or other unusual weather conditions; the street was dry, and the driver’s vision unobstructed and unobscured. Plaintiff, a woman sixty years of age, dressed in dark clothing and carrying some bundles, was walking from the southerly curb of Wilshire Boulevard on the west side of Tenth Street in a northerly direction in the center of a pedestrian zone. She had previously alighted from a bus, waited for the bus to move on and for other traffic to pass, and saw no traffic approaching from the east or west until she reached a point immediately north of the center line of Wilshire Boulevard, at which time she…