Myers

Myers v. Rovai

Good Law
66 Cal. App. 518·226 P. 844
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaApril 12, 1924Civ. No. 2531.California2,271 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Plummer, J.

Plaintiff began this action for the purpose of recovering of and from the defendants the sum of $1,325 damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff for and on account of a certain automobile collision occurring on the twentieth day of July, 1921, between an automobile belonging to the plaintiff and driven by a son of the plaintiff and a track belonging to the defendants and driven by the defendant M. Rovai. The case was tried before a jury, the defendants had judgment and the plaintiff appeals.

It appears from the complaint that on the said twentieth day of July, 1921, an automobile belonging to the plaintiff was being driven by Sidney Myers, a minor son of the plaintiff, in a southerly direction on the public highway between Pepperwood and Englewood in the county of Humboldt; that as said automobile proceeded along said highway it reached a point thereon where the road makes a curve of about thirty-four degrees; that at said time the defendants were driving a truck in a northerly direction on said highway and at a point approximately midway on said curve the automobile and truck collided. The force of the collision practically demolished the automobile and also…

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