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This action was brought by respondent to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of a collision between an automobile driven by himself and a street-car alleged to have been negligently operated by the appellant on Grand Avenue at its intersection with Twelfth Street in the city of Los Angeles. The answer of appellant denied the negligence charged and specifically alleged contributory negligence on the part of respondent. Upon the issues thus framed the cause was tried before a jury and resulted in a verdict in favor of respondent in the sum of $6,000.

Appellant contends that the jury was not warranted in concluding that it was negligent, and that there is no evidence in the case which would warrant a conclusion that respondent was not himself guilty of contributory negligence.

A map received in evidence and made a part of the record on appeal fixes the width of Grand Avenue at fifty-six feet and that it runs in a general northerly and southerly direction. Twelfth Street is shown to be forty feet wide and intersecting Grand Avenue at right angles. The record further establishes the fact that this intersection is in a business district as…