Schomer

The defendants have appealed from a judgment of $2,400 which was rendered against them for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in an automobile casualty which occurred at the intersection of streets in Los Angeles, in which the plaintiff while crossing the street on foot was struck by the defendants’ automobile and knocked down. The defendants have also appealed from an order of court made pursuant to section 1045 of the Code of Civil Procedure, subsequent to the rendering of judgment, authorizing the filing of a copy of the findings of court as a substitute for the original findings which were held by the court to have been lost.

Mateo and Bast Seventh Streets in the city of Los Angeles intersect at right angles. Mateo Street extends north and south. Double street-car tracks were maintained on both of these streets. The streets are supplied with automatic electric signals to regulate the traffic. At 7:30 o’clock on the morning of November 25, 1929, the plaintiff, carrying a grip containing seven dozen eggs, was en route to his place of business. He waited at the southeast corner of these streets for a favorable signal to cross East Seventh Street in a northerly…