Shackelford v. Mission Taxicab Company

224 F.2d 857 Doris Bernice SHACKELFORD, Alan Ray Shackelford and Larry William Shackelford, Minors, by Doris Bernice Shackelford, Their Guardian ad Litem, Appellants, v. MISSION TAXICAB COMPANY, Inc., a Corporation; Robert Goodrick and Buford H. Shipman, Appellees. No. 14350. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. July 23, 1955. Rockwell & Fulkerson, Harold H. Fulkerson, San Rafael, Cal., for appellants. Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, George K. Hartwick, John F. Ward, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees. Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, BONE, Circuit Judge, and JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge. DENMAN, Chief Judge. 1 Appellants, widow and children of William T. Shackelford, deceased, and plaintiffs below in a diversity suit, appeal from a judgment denying them recovery against the defendant Taxicab Company, its owner and driver, for the killing of Shackelford in a collision between the taxicab and a Studebaker car in Santa Clara County, California. 2 The collision occurred on a straight, level road at about 2:30 a. m. on a clear moonlit night, two nights after full moon, the motor travel there being infrequent. The Studebaker in the easterly lane, the lefthand side of the…