Pair

This action was brought by the surviving husband and three minor children of Mrs. Elizabeth Pair, for damages for her wrongful death resulting from an automobile collision.

On the tenth day of April, 1928, the deceased was driving a Nash automobile south on Alameda Boulevard near Bennett Street, in the city of Compton; she was accompanied by Cornelia Huffman, whose husband was the owner of the machine. Immediately preceding them on the highway and going in the same direction was an empty truck with a trailer attached, owned by the B. & 0. Truck Company; a truck and trailer, bqth loaded with lumber and owned by the defendant Hammond Lumber Company, was proceeding north on Alameda Boulevard at the same time; Mrs. Pair attempted to pass the B. & 0. truck, and just as she was in a position where she could start to turn back on to the right side of the boulevard in front of the B. & 0. truck the automobile she was operating was struck by the lumber truck going north, the left front wheel of the Nash automobile having caught on the left front wheel of the lumber truck, causing the Nash automobile to swing around at right angles to the side of the lumber truck. Instantly the B. & 0.…