Flood

Defendant appeals from a judgment awarding damages for personal injuries resulting from a collision about 4 o’clock P. M. on April 12, 1929, between the motor-truck of appellant and a motorcycle ridden by respondent. Prior to the collision respondent was proceeding north on San Pedro Street in the city of Los Angeles and appellant’s truck was going in a westerly direction on East Ninth Street and toward the intersection of that street with San Pedro Street. While there was no proof that they were there placed in compliance with any ordinance, the record discloses that on San Pedro Street and at a point 32 feet south from the southeast corner of the intersection and also on East Ninth Street at a point 74 feet east of the intersection there were located mechanical traffic signals changing from “Go” to “Stop” and so on. Traffic buttons, four in number, were placed at approximately the intersection of the center lines of each of the streets by a prolongation of the property lines at right angles thereto. It was stipulated that the location was a business district. Respondent, riding on his motorcycle in a northerly direction, was about 80 feet south of the intersection where the…