Freiburg

The defendants appeal from a judgment for $1,575 for personal injuries to the plaintiff and for injuries to his buggy, harness, and horse, sustained in a collision between the buggy in which- he was driving and an automobile owned by the defendants Israel and driven by their chauffeur, the defendant Wahlicht.

The plaintiff, a farmer, was driving in a- one-horse buggy or light spring-wagon toward his home in the afternoon of August 1, 1916. He was driving south on Lankershim Boulevard, in Los Angeles County. The boulevard is fifty-six feet wide from concrete curb to concrete curb, graded and surfaced over the full width, the center portion of twenty-two feet being a hard pavement of asphalt, with a shoulder on each side graveled, sanded, oiled, and rolled, so that the whole width of fifty-six feet furnishes a smooth driving surface. The plaintiff was driving on the right-hand side of the boulevard, about fifteen feet from the right curb, so that his farm horse might find softer footing in the graveled shoulder of the boulevard than on the hard pavement in the center. The roadway at the place where the accident occurred was clear of vehicles other than those of the plaintiff and…