CARLTON v. PACIFIC COAST GASOLINE CO.

Docket No. 18655.

110 Cal.App.2d 177 (1952)

242 P.2d 391

VELMA L. CARLTON, Appellant, v. PACIFIC COAST GASOLINE COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Defendants; WILLIAM A. KIRK, JR., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

March 31, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Ransom Samuelson for Appellant.

Parker, Stanbury, Reese & McGee and R.M. Crookshank for Respondents.


VICKERS, J. pro tem.

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit.

Plaintiff filed this action to recover damages for the wrongful death of her husband. On October 27, 1948, about 11 a.m., he was driving a truck and trailer loaded with oil well pipe. The vehicle left the road opposite a point where the defendant Kirk had parked his car, entered a plowed field and came to a sudden stop, with the result that...

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