RIDEAU v. LOS ANGELES TRANSIT LINES

Docket No. 19828.

124 Cal.App.2d 466 (1954)

268 P.2d 772

LEWIS W. RIDEAU et al., Respondents, v. LOS ANGELES TRANSIT LINES (a Corporation) et al., Appellants.

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

April 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trippet, Newcomer, Yoakum & Thomas and Melvin L.R. Harris for Appellants.

Getz, Aikens & Manning, Thomas C. Murphy and DeWitt Morgan Manning for Respondents.


VALLEE, J.

Appeal by defendants from an adverse judgment in an action for damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff Lewis W. Rideau will be referred to as "plaintiff."

On January 8, 1952, about 11 a.m., plaintiff drove a small tow truck north on Main Street toward 23d Street in Los Angeles. The weather was clear and the street dry. Before reaching 23d Street he had driven for four or five blocks in the lane of traffic next to the center of Main Street, in which...

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