Carrisosa

This is an action for damages for the death of the minor son of the plaintiffs which it is claimed resulted from his being run into by a delivery truck owned by the defendant corporation and operated at the time by one of its employees, the individual defendant.

Some of the essential facts may be briefly stated as follows : The plaintiffs resided on W. Chestnut Street in the city of Anaheim, the back yard of their premises abutting upon Oak Street, the next street north of Chestnut. Oak Street is paved and but thirty feet wide. In the block in which the plaintiffs live the property between Oak Street and the next street north is solidly built with business buildings, having their main entrance to the north with their rear doors facing Oak Street. The property occupied by the plaintiffs was about the middle of the block, and nearly opposite the rear end of this property and on the north side of Oak Street was the rear door of the grocery-store. At the time here in question a number of automobiles were standing along the south curb of this portion of Oak Street, being parked parallel to the curb. On the north side of Oak Street, opposite the rear of plaintiffs’ premises, a truck…