Blackburn
Blackburn v. Marple
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action for damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff as the result of a collision between two automobiles.
The facts of the case, as summarized from the findings of the trial court, are as follows: On July 14, 1915, at about the hour of 6:30 P. M., the plaintiff was riding in a Ford automobile, being driven by her husband along the state highway leading from Whittier to Fullerton, going in an easterly direction at a speed not in excess of twenty miles per hour, and was approaching the point upon said highway where a public road known as the La Habré road enters it from the south. The state highway and the La Habré road are each about sixty feet wide at this point, each having a paved center of about 18 feet in width. At the point of entrance of the La Habré road the latter makes two long curves, one tum ing into the highway to the left going west, and the other turning into the highway to the right going east, and the triangle at the point of entrance caused by their separation being unpaved but oiled and subject to travel. The private property on each side of the La Habré road at its said point of…