Jones

Plaintiff instituted this action to recover damages on account of personal injuries sustained when an automobile driven by the defendant Cottrell collided with a power pole belonging to and maintained by the defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The defendant Cottrell suffered default, and upon trial judgment went in favor of the defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company. From this judgment the plaintiff appeals.

The complaint alleges that on or about the thirteenth day of November, 1926, the plaintiff was riding as a guest in an automobile, in a northeasterly direction, on a certain highway or street-in North Sacramento known as “Del Paso Boulevard”; that at said time and place the defendant Cottrell was then and there operating said automobile in a careless and negligent manner; that at the same time the defendant corporation herein, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, was negligently allowing one of its poles to stand wholly within the main traveled portion of the said Del Paso Boulevard and near the intersection of said boulevard with a certain other street known as “Globe Avenue”; that the said defendant corporation negligently failed to have said pole guarded or…