Koehl

The defendants, sued as husband and wife, by the parents as heirs of Mae C. Koehl, who died as the result of being struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Carpenter, appeal from a judgment for $1,000 rendered by the trial court sitting without a jury. The appellants rely ón three grounds which will be disposed of in the order of their presentation, after the following statement of facts shown by the record:

Mae Koehl was between twenty-one and twenty-two years of age. She had previously been employed as a cashier in a business concern in Los Angeles. She was out of employment for about a month during which time she remained at home, helping with the household duties. She then went to work as an assistant bookkeeper in the office of her father, who, with his son, was engaged in the manufacturing business. She had been so occupied about a month, and was acquainted with the streets in Los Angeles and with the particular crossing, near her place of business, where the accident occurred.

At the time of the accident, in November, 1917, there was, and had been from some time in 1914, an ordinance of the city of Los Angeles which provided that it should be unlawful for the driver of any…