Shaffer

This is an appeal prosecuted from a judgment in favor of the respondents and against appellants in an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by said Cora A. Murphy, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants. The action was tried by a jury, who rendered a verdict in favor of the respondents for the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. The accident which resulted in the injury to Mrs. | Murphy occurred on the twelfth day of June, 1918. At the time in question the appellants were common carriers of persons for hire between Yosemite Valley and El Portal. Bur-ling the month of June, 1918, a certain insurance company I was entertaining its various representatives, numbering some three or four hundred persons, coming to California from i various parts of the United States. A part of the entertain'ment of this body of persons included a trip to the Yosemite ¡Valley. When the party was ready to leave the valley, the Appellants provided an automobile or bus in which Mrs. 'Murphy was a passenger. The road from Yosemite Valley down the canyon is very narrow and in some places rather steep. At a certain point in the canyon where the road is but little…