Oberholzer
Oberholzer v. Hubbell
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Lennon, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of one thousand dollars obtained by plaintiff in an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by her in the collision of an automobile owned by the defendant with the buggy in which she was riding.
The evidence which supports the allegations of plaintiff’s complaint is to the effect that the plaintiff, accompanied by her husband, was riding in a horse-drawn vehicle driven by her husband westerly along and on the right-hand side of Western Avenue, in the city of Petaluma; that an automobile owned by the defendant Hubbell was being driven by him at a speed of about twenty miles per hour along Keller Street, in said city, in a northerly direction; that upon arriving at the intersection of Western Avenue and Keller Street, the automobile suddenly encountered another horse and wagon; that in an endeavor to avoid a collision with the latter rig the defendant turned his automobile obliquely from the right to the left-hand side of Keller Street and collided with the plaintiff’s rig which had partly passed the intersection of the center line of the two streets; that because of the fact that the defendant had turned and directed his automobile to…