Kuhns

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment by which the plaintiffs recovered damages for personal injuries suffered by Lizzie P. Kuhns.

The action was brought by Lizzie P. Kuhns and Prank C. Kuhns, her husband, for personal injuries suffered by the former and alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of his automobile, whereby, it is averred, he came into collision with said Lizzie P. Kuhns.

The accident happened near the intersection of Second and Spring Streets, in the city of Los Angeles, in the evening after dark and "at a time when traffic was congested. On that evening the said plaintiff, holding an umbrella above her, undertook to cross Spring Street from the northeast corner of said intersection. She proceeded westerly, using the crosswalk, until more than halfway across, when the defendant, driving an automobile northward on the east side of Spring Street, and having passed the center of Second Street, turned west, describing a semi-circle in doing so, and came up behind and collided with said plaintiff, who was struck by the right-hand front part of the automobile on the posterior of the left thigh, being thereby thrown and…