Jacobsen

On October 10, 1930, an automobile driven by H. S. Vaughn collided with an automobile driven by Mae' Ballard Jacobsen at the intersection of Whites Bridge Boad and Chateau-Fresno Avenue in Fresno County, resulting in serious injuries to Mrs. Jacobsen. Whites Bridge Boad runs east and west, having a sixteen-foot pavement along its center. Chateau-Fresno Avenue runs north and south, its central portion being thirteen and a half feet wide. On the occasion in question, Mrs. Jacobsen was proceeding south on Chateau-Fresno Avenue and Vaughn was proceeding east on Whites Bridge Boad. When Mrs. Jacob-sen was almost across the paved portion of Whites Bridge Boad her car was struck on its right-hand side by the front end of the Vaughn car. The two cars came to rest, side by side, near the southeast corner of the intersection, the Jacob-sen car being overturned while the Vaughn car remained upright. It appears from the evidence that Vaughn’s view to his right, as he approached this intersection, was obstructed and that his view to his left was partially obstructed by a pumping plant, a short distance north of Whites Bridge Boad and west of Chateau-Fresno Avenue, and by weeds growing along an…