McMullen

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment against him for $1,250 in an action for damages sustained by reason of personal injuries suffered by Catherine McMullen. The injuries were caused by being struck by an automobile driven by the defendant. The automobile was being driven along East Fourth Street, in the city of Los Angeles, at its intersection with Mott Street, at about 7 o’clock in the evening. The plaintiffs, husband and wife, were walking on the easterly sidewalk of Mott Street, going south. About the time the plaintiffs reached the northerly side of East Fourth Street, a street-ear approached from the west, coming easterly along the southerly track (the track farthest from the plaintiffs) of the street-car line on East Fourth Street, and defendant approached Mott Street coming in the same direction on the southerly side of the street and on the southerly side of the street-car track. East Fourth Street, it is stipulated, is at that point about eighty feet wide, including the sidewalks on each side, and Mott Street is about fifty feet wide. There was a light at the intersection of the streets and it was sufficiently light to see clearly. It appears that the…