McKinnon

This is an appeal hy the defendant, United Railroads of San Francisco, from a judgment for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars rendered against it in an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a collision between the street-car of the said defendant and a street-car of its eodefendant, California Street Cable Railroad Company, upon the car of which latter codefendant the plaintiff was a passenger.

The collision occurred on the evening of May 27, 1917, at the intersection of Hyde and Sacramento Streets, in the city and county of San Francisco. The Hyde Street car of the California Street Cable Railroad Company had come up Hyde Street, traveling in a northerly direction, and was crossing Sacramento Street when it was struck by the ear of the Sacramento Street line of the United Railroads, which descended the hill on that street going west, and collided with the rear end of the Hyde Street car. The undisputed evidence shows that a short while before the time of the collision a drizzling rain or mist had been falling in that vicinity, rendering the rails. of the respective street-car systems quite slippery. The evidence also shows without conflict that…