Erdevig

This action was brought by appellant to recover damages for injuries sustained by her in being knocked down by an electric car owned by respondent and operated at the time of the accident by respondent’s em ployees. The trial court granted a nonsuit and the plaintiff has appealed. The evidence shows that the appellant was, at the time she was struck by respondent’s car, in the act of crossing Market Street, in the city of San Francisco, at its intersection with Franklin and Twelfth Streets. Just prior to the accident the appellant had walked from the northerly curbstone of Market Street to the safety zone contiguous to the tracks of the Municipal Street Railway on the northerly side of Market Street. A Municipal car had stopped opposite and parallel to this safety zone upon appellant’s arrival at the safety zone. This car, before it stopped, had been traveling in a westerly direction, and the front or westerly end thereof was about even with the westerly end of the safety zone. Appellant walked in front of the standing Municipal car, intending to cross Market Street at the intersection crossing to the safety zone on the opposite or southerly side of said street for the purpose of…