Simonsen

This is an automobile accident collision case. The plaintiff, Louis Simonsen, with his wife, G-ussie Simonsen, was driving in a light Buick ear south on the west side of Arlington Street, in the city of Los Angeles. The defendant’s employee was driving a delivery auto-truck west on the northerly side of an intersecting street.

According to the testimony of the plaintiffs, they were driving at from eighteen to twenty miles an hour at a point about twenty feet north of the intersection where they first saw defendant’s truck approaching from the east at a distance of about fifty feet from the intersection, and at a speed of about thirty miles an hour. Plaintiffs had the right of way and having slowed down to fifteen miles at the intersection proceeded south across the street, paying no further attention to the truck. The next they knew of the truck, as they testify, was after they had passed the center of the intersection, when the truck suddenly appeared coming diagonally across the street from the northeast and closing in upon them at a point near the southwest corner of the street intersection. Plaintiff Simonsen testified that he then swerved his car to the right, but could not…