Robbins

Robbins v. Roques

Good Law
128 Cal. App. 1·1932 Cal. App. LEXIS 265·16 P.2d 695
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 30, 1932Docket No. 482.California2,520 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Jennings, J.

This action was instituted by plaintiffs, husband and wife, to recover from defendants, husband and wife, damages for personal injuries sustained by said plaintiffs, as a result of a collision that occurred between an automobile which was being driven by defendant, George E. Roques, and a motorcycle upon which both plaintiffs were riding and which was being operated by the male plaintiff, S. T. Robbins. The evidence which was presented during the trial of the action showed that the plaintiff, Phyllis Robbins, sat on the seat of the motorcycle and that her husband, S'. T. Robbins, sat immediately in front of her partly on the seat and partly on the gas-tank of the vehicle and that Phyllis Robbins had her arms around her husband’s waist and was clinging to him. The collision occurred on a road which was stipulated to be a mountain road and in the vicinity of a curve in said road. Plaintiffs were traveling down grade and defendants were proceeding upgrade in the opposite direction. Plaintiffs had passsed around a curve approximately 200 feet in length immediately prior to the happening of the accident. No signal by horn or otherwise was given by them as they rounded the curve.…

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