Dover

Action to recover damages incurred by reason of negligence of the defendant in the operation of an automobile, whereby the defendant’s automobile collided with another automobile in which the plaintiff Margaret Dover was riding, and whereby personal injuries were received by her. The accident occurred May 9, 1920. Judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiffs, and the defendant appeals therefrom.

At the time of the accident Mrs. Dover was riding in .. a Ford automobile owned and driven by one H. A. Palmaymesa. She was riding, with three other persons, as a guest of Palmaymesa, and they were driving in an easterly direction on the state highway between Goleta and Santa Barbara. The plaintiff John Dover was not there. Immediately before the accident a stage which was driving westerly, ahead of the defendant, stopped to allow a passenger to get off. Another automobile, in front of the defendant, stopped behind the stage. Thereupon, the defendant turned his automobile to the left side of the road and attempted to pass the next automobile and the stage. At the same time the Ford car of Palmaymesa was passing the stage on the south side of the road. According to the testimony, which…