Hunger
City of Sacramento v. Hunger
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hart, J.
The plaintiff in this action sues for damages in the total sum of twelve hundred dollars for damage alleged to have been done to a police armored automobile belonging to said city in a collision between said automobile and the automobile of the defendant, William F. L. Hunger, and also for expenses paid by plaintiff for medical services rendered to one of its police officers for physical injuries sustained by the latter by reason of said collision, said officer being in the police car at the time of the mishap.
The cause was tried before a jury and a verdict rendered for the defendants. The appeal is by the plaintiff from the judgment entered upon said verdict.
The defendant William J. Hunger is the father of the other defendant, the latter, so the complaint states, being, at the time of the collision, a minor.
The accident occurred between 11 and 12 o’clock on the night of the tenth day of January, 1925, at the intersec tion of Seventh and L Streets, in the City of Sacramento. Just prior to the happening of the collision the police department received a notice by telephone that a burglar was carrying on criminal operations at or near a residence in the neighborhood of Seventh…