Webb

Separate actions commenced by one of the plaintiffs in his own behalf, and as guardian ad litem on behalf of a minor child were consolidated for trial, and were submitted to a jury upon the evidence adduced by the plaintiffs, without the offer of evidence by the defendants. Verdicts in favor of the former were returned, a motion for a new trial was interposed by said defendants, which was granted, and the plaintiffs appealed from such ruling.

At an intersection of thoroughfares in the city of Los Angeles, known and designated as Vermont Avenue and Eighty-fourth Place, respectively running northerly and southerly and easterly and westerly, the appellants, while driving easterly in an automobile, were injured by the collision of a south-bound street-car of the respondent corporation therewith. The car was first seen about 300 feet away, approaching at a speed of 30 to 35 miles per hour, as the automobile made a boulevard stop, proceeded to cross Vermont Avenue, and was stalled on the car-tracks. Attempts to start the same proving fruitless, the occupants waved their arms and shouted, but the street-car continued on, struck the machine, and carried it some distance to and against a…