Huber

Huber v. Walters

Good Law
114 Cal. App. 323·1931 Cal. App. LEXIS 872·299 P. 803
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 25, 1931Docket No. 6676.California877 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Craig, J.

Automobiles of the respective parties collided while traversing an intersection of public streets in the city of Santa Monica, as a result of which accident both were damaged. In an action instituted by the plaintiffs, the defendant joined issue, and by cross-complaint demanded compensation for injury to his car. By its ver diet a jury found “for the defendant without award of damages”, and the plaintiffs appealed from the judgment entered accordingly.

It appears that appellant Huber and three other people were driving in a northerly direction upon the easterly side of Twentieth Street, in a Jordan sedan automobile, and that as they crossed Carlyle Street their car was struck near the right rear wheel, on the northerly portion of said intersection, by a Franklin car driven by defendant Walters. The Jordan was thrown over upon its top, and was facing toward the south, at a point indicated upon a diagram from actual measurements, twenty-four feet north of the line of Carlyle Street, and ten feet from the Twentieth Street curb line, when it stopped. The Franklin machine was driven across Twentieth Street, to the northwesterly corner of the intersection, from which point it later…

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