Furuta

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion for new trial, and from a judgment awarding plaintiff damages resulting from the death of Nobuko Furuta, his minor daughter, which occurred in a collision between an automobile in which she was riding and a motor boat on a four-wheel trailer being drawn by an automobile driven by Carl William Randall on Huntington Beach Boulevard, a public highway in Orange County, shortly after twelve-thirty o’clock on the morning of March 28, 1934.

William H. Randall and Mrs. William H. Randall are the parents of Carl and signed his application for an operator’s license. Their sole liability in this ease is under the provisions of section 62 of the California Vehicle Act as it existed at the time of the accident.

William Knight, Robert Young and Donald Matthews were companions of Carl on his trip and were joined as defendants in the action. No judgment was rendered against them. When in this opinion we refer to the defendants we do not include these three minors. William H. Randall was regularly appointed guardian ad litem of Carl William Randall, William Knight, Robert Young and Donald Matthews, all of whom were minors.

On March 28, 1934, Carl…