SEVERIN v. COX

Docket No. 4100.

104 Cal.App.2d 331 (1951)

231 P.2d 134

RICHARD H. SEVERIN, Respondent, v. VICTOR COX, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

May 18, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmett R. Burns and Edward A. Friend for Appellant.

L. Kenneth Say for Respondent.


MUSSELL, J.

Plaintiff, a young college student, while riding his motorcycle in a northerly direction on Orange Avenue in the city of Fresno, struck a barricade erected along an open trench across the east side of the avenue. He filed the present action for damages against the defendant, a plumbing contractor, who excavated the trench to put in a sewer connection. A jury awarded plaintiff damages in the sum of $6,000.

Appellant's argument is devoted entirely...

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