Baldock

Plaintiff was struck and injured by a bicycle ridden by defendant Perez, who was an employee of defendant corporation. The jury returned a verdict in her favor for the sum of $1750. Defendants moved for a directed verdict upon the grounds that there was no evidence of negligence on their part and that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence in failing to look in the direction from which the bicycle was approaching. This motion was denied, and later a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was made. The last motion was also denied, and defendants have appealed from the orders and from the judgment entered upon the verdict.

On May 29, 1930, plaintiff alighted from a street-car which had been traveling in an easterly direction along Market Street in San Francisco. The car had stopped at a safety station on the corner of Seventh Street where all traffic had been halted by a stop signal. Several automobiles had stopped between the safety station and the sidewalk. Plaintiff passed between two of the automobiles in the direction of the sidewalk, and was about to step upon the curb when she was struck by the bicycle, which was moving toward the crossing, its course…