Dowe

This is an appeal by defendants from a judgment entered against them, respondent having sustained personal injuries in a collision with an auto mobile, owned by appellant O’Neill, and driven at the time of the accident by appellant Webb. The accident, concerned in this action, occurred in the city of Los Angeles upon Washington Boulevard. At the place where the accident occurred there is marked upon Washington Boulevard, in white painted lines, a crosswalk approximately fifteen feet in width. Washington Boulevard runs in an east and west direction and has two street-car tracks upon its surface. There is a street-car loading zone situated north of the street-car tracks. Respondent testified that before he entered the crosswalk, it being his intention to cross to the street-car loading zone, he looked both ways and observed cars approaching him from the west; that the first car stopped at the west line of the crosswalk; that the driver of this ear motioned to him to come on, which he did, walking about the middle of the crosswalk, and to the north. What happened next may be best described in respondent’s own language:

The driver of the car that stopped for respondent to cross…