Jensen

The plaintiffs, as husband and wife, brought an action against the defendants to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff wife in an automobile accident. The plaintiffs recovered a judgment and the defendants have appealed under the new method.

In the charging part of their complaint, the plaintiffs aver that at the time of the accident they were traveling in a Ford sedan in the public road leading from San Jose to Oakland; that the defendants were operating a certain automobile bus; that at the time of the accident the defendants so carelessly, negligently, and unskillfully drove, operated, and ran said automobile bus that said bus collided with and struck the Ford sedan and forced, crowded, and knocked it and the occupants thereof off the road. In support of their pleading, evidence was introduced by the plaintiffs to the effect that the defendants’ bus approached from the rear at a speed estimated, by different witnesses, at from thirty to thirty-seven miles an hour; that the driver gave no signal of warning; that on meeting up with the Ford sedan the driver of the bus turned to the left, and, when immediately ahead of the Ford sedan, swerved' the bus…