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Plaintiff, by his guardian, brought action against defendant to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a collision between a motorcycle upon which plaintiff was riding and an automobile operated by defendant. The principal undisputed facts appear to be as follows: At about 8 o’clock P. M. of August 27, 1920, plaintiff was riding his motorcycle eastward on Third Street in the city of San Pedro, approaching the intersection of Third Street with Bandini Street, the former extending east and west and the latter north and south, the two streets intersecting at right angles. A single street-car track was located about the center of Bandini Street, the rails being slightly above grade at the street intersection. Neither of the streets was paved and each of them was somewhat rough. When plaintiff was a considerable distance from the intersection of the two streets he was traveling at a rate of about twenty miles an hour, but when within one block of the intersection the speed of his motorcycle was slowed to about ten or twelve miles an hour, and so continued until the accident upon which this action is based occurred. The headlights of each of the vehicles were burning…