MacCorkell

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries. The cause was tried by the court without a jury. Judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $5,732.45. The defendant has appealed from said judgment. The appeal is based upon the ground that the findings of the trial court, as follows: That preceding and at the time of the accident the plaintiff was exercising reasonable and ordinary care for his own safety; that he was not guilty of contributory negligence; that the accident from which plantiff’s injuries resulted was the direct result of defendant’s negligence and that the injuries sustained by the plaintiff were not the result of an inevitable or unavoidable accident so far as defendant is or was concerned, are each and every one without support in the evidence.

Colorado Boulevard is a paved highway about sixty feet wide between the curb lines and runs easterly and westerly through the city of Glendale in the county of Los Angeles. Griswold Street is a public highway in said city about thirty-five feet wide between curbs and it intersects Colorado Boulevard from the south but does not continue north of said Colorado Boulevard. At the time of the accident…