Sartori
Sartori v. Granucci
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Langdon, J.
This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment against it in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the agent of the defendant copartnership, in driving an automobile. The driver is also made a defendant.
Plaintiff' was crossing Green Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, from the north to the south side, about fifty feet east of its intersection with Columbus Avenue, and collided with an automobile operated by defendant Guido Granucci. It is unnecessary to discuss the evidence in its entirety, but it is sufficient to point out that there was some evidence in the record from which the jury might have found that, upon a wet and slippery pavement, defendant Guido Granucci was driving between twenty and. twenty-five miles an hour. Because of the rain and the mist, he could only see ten or fifteen feet ahead of him. He made a left turn from Columbus Avenue into Green Street. Green Street runs in a general easterly and westerly direction. He was on the left side of the street and was attempting to cross to the right side. This defendant did not contradict the testimony to the effect that he was on the wrong side of the…