Hollowell

The plaintiffs, husband and wife, brought this action against the defendant for damages for personal injuries received by them in an automobile collision, and for injury to the machine in which they were riding. The case was tried by jury and judgment was entered upon a verdict in favor of plaintiffs. The defendant appeals.

About 8 o’clock on the evening of July 1, 1917, respondents were riding in their Ford automobile along Avenue 64, ■between Los Angeles and Pasadena, and with them was their fifteen months old grandson. Mr. Hollowell was driving, and the machine was traveling at a rate of about twenty miles an hour. He drove to one side to pass another machine, driven by one William Clark Houston, and had just swung hack to the right side of the road, when appellant, in a Stutz car, came up from behind and crashed into the rear end of the Ford. The Ford was overturned and damaged, and respondents were both injured, Mrs. Hollowell being thrown through the top of the ear. The baby escaped injury. Mr. Houston testified: “I saw Mr. Cameron before I got to the accident; he passed me also. I did hear a noise coming before he reached me. I heard a terrific blowing of the horn. . . .…