Patton

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendant following the granting of defendant’s motion for nonsuit in an action for personal injuries. The motion for nonsuit was granted upon the grounds that there was no evidence introduced connecting the defendant with the ownership of the automobile or with its operation at the time of the accident and that there was no evidence introduced which showed that the person operating the automobile was at the time of the accident either in the employ of the defendant or acting within the scope of his employment. The complaint alleged that the defendant, a corporation, while engaged in the business of demonstrating and selling automobiles, operated an automobile along Inyo Street, in the city of Fresno, in a westerly direction while plaintiff was operating a bicycle along the same street in an easterly direction and approaching the intersection thereof with I Street; that as plaintiff approached the intersection of said streets the defendant corporation negligently caused said automobile to be driven along said Inyo Street and into I Street at such an angle across the intersection of said streets that it passed to the left of the center…