Rinker

Plaintiff had judgment against the defendant J. C. Carl in the sum of eight thousand dollars as compensation for injuries suffered by him when the plaintiff was injured by an automobile driven by said defendant. Prom this judgment the defendants appeal.

The transcript shows that on or about the 22d of November, 1925, during the night-time, the plaintiff was driving an automobile in a westerly direction along that certain highway in Los Angeles County known as and called Los Feliz Boulevard; that when the plaintiff reached a certain point on said boulevard where it is intersected by Griffith Park Drive the plaintiff turned his car across the boulevard in a southerly direction and parked the same at the side of Griffith Park Drive. His purpose in doing so was to enable him to examine a signboard on the north side of Los Peliz Boulevard, giving directions as to how to reach certain cities. The plaintiff, after parking his car in the Park Drive, started to cross Los Peliz Boulevard from the southerly side thereof, proceeding in a general northerly direction toward the point where the signboard was stationed. The paved portion of Los Peliz Boulevard is shown by the testimony to be…