Baker
Baker v. Western Auto Stage Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Finlatson, J.
In this action for personal injuries, sustained in an automobile accident while a passenger on one of defendant’s auto buses, plaintiff recovered judgment for one thousand dollars, from which defendant appeals.
Defendant, a common carrier of passengers, runs auto stages or buses between Los Angeles and Bakersfield. Plaintiff was injured in a collision between one of defendant’s auto buses and another automobile, a Buick, owned and driven by a man of the name of Maxwell. At the time of the collision, defendant’s bus, .on which plaintiff was a passenger, was traveling from Los Angeles to Bakersfield. The collision occurred in Los Angeles County, at the intersection of Glendale Street and San Fernando Road. Glendale Street enters, but does not cross San Fernando Road. Plaintiff alleged, and the court found, that the collision "was the result of the negligent driving of the auto bus by defendant’s employee, William Dukelow. Immediately before the accident, Dukelow, driving defendant’s auto stage, was traveling northwesterly’ along San Fernando Road. lie approached the place where that road is entered by Glendale Street from his right. Maxwell, operating his Buick car, and traveling…