Newman

This is an action for damages for personal injuries, which arose under the following circumstances. The defendant Cypress Petroleum Company was operating an oil lease in Kern County, some miles from the city of Taft. The defendant Steuernagel was employed by this company as its foreman upon said lease, it being understood that he should use his own automobile when he needed a ear for company service. On April 14, 1930, the defendant Andreola, who was not employed by the oil company, was visiting Steuernagel at the lease. Steuernagel decided to go to Taft to order a part for a Ford tractor in use on the lease, and Andreola accompanied him as a guest in his car. On arriving at the Ford garage in Taft Steuernagel found the parking space in the immediate vicinity entirely occupied by other automobiles parked in a slanting position head-on toward the curb. He stopped his car in front of the Ford garage, parallel to the curb but beyond the cars thus parked against the same, and a short distance to the rear of a bakery truck which was similarly double-parked in front of a bakery which adjoined the Ford garage. He stopped his motor and went into the garage, saying nothing except “I will…