Garrison

The plaintiff commenced an action against the defendants to obtain a judgment for damages alleged to have been caused by injuries inflicted by an automobile. The jury brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and from the judgment entered thereon the defendants have appealed.

At about 3 o’clock in the afternoon on the twelfth day of January, 1922, the collision occurred on the east side of Ashbury Street between Waller and Haight Streets, in San Francisco. The plaintiff had been attending school on Ash-bury Street and had left school and was on his way home. He passed down the west side of Ashbury Street from Waller toward Haight Street. After leaving Waller Street he crossed diagonally toward the east side of Ashbury. When he was out in the street and slightly on the east side of it an automobile came down the street on the right-hand side. The automobile was being driven by Marie Louise Pearlstein, and her mother, Blanche Pearlstein, was sitting in the front seat by her side. Mr. Pearlstein and Mr. Poole, a visitor from Chicago, were seated on the back seat. As the automobile proceeded down the street an impact occurred between the plaintiff and the automobile. It was the…