TORRES v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket Nos. L.A. 26660, 26661.

58 Cal.2d 35 (1962)

372 P.2d 906

22 Cal. Rptr. 866

EDITH TORRES, a Minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Appellant. MOSES BOSKETT et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, Herbert Hargrave and Weldon L. Weber, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Appellant.

Dryden, Harrington, Horgan & Swartz, Vernon G. Foster, James H. Davis, Zeman, Comsky & Fischer and David Comsky for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Albert E. Nelson, Raoul D. Magana, David M. Harney, John Sloan, Robert E. Ford, Robert N. Stone and Ingemar E. Hoberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


WHITE, J.

Defendant, City of Los Angeles in two consolidated actions, appeals from judgments for personal injuries and a wrongful death caused by one of defendant's fire engines after it had collided at an intersection with another of defendant's fire engines while both were answering the same alarm.

The collision occurred at the intersection of San Pedro and Jefferson Streets on June 1, 1958. Engines Nos. 14 and...

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