Caraveo

This is an appeal by the defendant Pickwick Stages System from a judgment entered against it on the verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1750, a motion for nonsuit having been granted as to each of the remaining defendants.

Plaintiff, an infant of the age of five years, by his guardian ad litem, brought suit against appellant and its co-defendants for injuries sustained in a collision between the car of his father, in which he was riding, and one of appellant’s stages. The accident occurred June 3, 1928, at the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Wilson Avenue, in the city of Alhambra, Los Angeles County. The complaint alleged that the driver of the stage so negligently operated the same at the intersection named that without warning or signal to the driver of the car in which plaintiff was riding he "suddenly backed said bus into the automobile” aforesaid, causing the injuries complained of. Both the motor-bus and the car in which plaintiff was riding were approaching the intersection from the west. Appellant’s stage had just passed the car and turned in front of it when the signal at the intersection changed for the east and west bound traffic to stop. Both…