Connerly

This is an action, by the plaintiff to recover damages from the defendants for and on account of personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by him in an automobile accident occurring on the fourteenth day of July, 1921. The cause was tried before a jury, the plaintiff had judgment and the defendants appeal.

It appears from the pleadings and transcript in this case that the plaintiff in this action on the day above named was driving a Ford automobile on the highway leading from Los Banos towards the town of Volta; that at the same time the defendants, by an employee and one of its partners, were driving a Ford truck belonging to the partnership on the same highway and in the same direction and, before the occurrence of the collision hereinafter referred to, were preceding the automobile driven by the plaintiff; that the driveway consisted of a concrete pavement approximately sixteen feet in width; that at a point near where the collision occurred there is a narrow lane leading off from the highway towards the left at an acute angle; that for a time just preceding the reaching of the intersection of the lane with the highway, the Ford truck was proceeding along the right-hand…