Almanerz

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff wife, who will be referred to as the appellant, was injured in a collision between an automobile driven by her and a passenger bus owned and operated by the defendants. The collision occurred on December 11, 1933, in the city of San Diego at the intersection of Island Avenue, which runs east and west, and Fifteenth Street, which runs north and south. The appellant was driving east on Island Avenue and when near the center of this intersection was struck by the defendant’s bus, which was proceeding north on Fifteenth Street. It does not appear in the evidence that this intersection was in a built-up territory and there is no evidence that the view of either driver was obstructed. It appears that the bus struck the automobile approximately in the middle of its right side when it was straddling the center line of Island Avenue with its right wheels about 2% feet south of that line and when its rear wheels were 2% feet east of the center line of Fifteenth Street. As a result of the impact the automobile was shoved sideways, in a northerly direction, a distance of 5 feet.

At the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ case the…