Truitner

About 5:30 o’clock on the afternoon of September 20, 1925, two automobiles driven respectively by the defendants Clifford Truitner and Charles M. Knight collided at the intersection of Clovis and Adams Avenues in the county of Fresno, resulting in personal injuries to three of the occupants of Truitner’s automobile, one of whom was his mother, Alice Truitner, who later brought this action for damages, being joined therein by her husband. The drivers of said automobile and H. K. Mahakian, the owner of the one Knight was driving, were made parties defendant, but as to Mahakian, who was not present at the time of the collision, the action was subsequently dismissed. The trial was had before a jury, and a verdict rendered against the remaining defendants Truitner and Knight in the sum of $4,000. From the judgment entered upon said verdict the defendant Truitner alone has appealed.

The single ground urged for reversal is insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict against appellant, it being contended with reference thereto that, taken as a whole, the evidence proves that the collision resulted from the sole negligence of the defendant Knight, and on the other hand shows that…