Williamson

This is an appeal from a judgment of $11,846.80, which was recovered against the appellant, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in an automobile casualty.

The plaintiff was employed as housekeeper at the Lincoln Hotel in Stockton. She was the owner of the Studebaker sedan automobile which is involved in this action. The co-defendant Lucretia McConnell, also known as Mrs. Lou Tressler, was a clerk in the same hotel. For four years these ladies had been friends and associates. Mrs. Tressler kept company with the appellant, while the plaintiff associated with a gentleman by the name of Klein. By pre arrangement this group of four planned to drive from Stockton to San Francisco to attend a show. July 17, 1928, Mrs. Tressler called the plaintiff on the telephone informing her of the plan to drive down to San Francisco and requested her to bring her machine over to her apartments on Lafayette Street. The plaintiff accordingly obtained a leave of absence from her duties at the hotel and dressing for 'the occasion drove to the Tressler apartments, where she found the trio above mentioned waiting for her. The appellant, who was known to the plaintiff to be a careful driver,…