DE ORNELLAS v. TRUCHETTA

Docket No. 20658.

222 Cal.App.2d 89 (1963)

34 Cal. Rptr. 803

LESTER RAY DE ORNELLAS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ANTHONY NICK TRUCHETTA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

November 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Machado, Feeley & Machado and Kenneth Machado for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Campbell, Custer, Warburton & Britton and George A. Strong for Defendants and Respondents.


TAYLOR, J.

On this appeal from an adverse judgment rendered on a jury verdict in a personal injury action, plaintiff, Lester R. De Ornellas, asserts that erroneous and prejudicial instructions were given to the jury pertaining to the effect of speed in excess of the prima facie speed limit (Veh. Code, § 511).1

The facts are as follows: A motorcycle owned and driven by the appellant ran into the right side of a bus driven by...

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