Lorry v. Englander Drayage & Warehouse Co.

DOOLING, J., pro tem.

These two cases arise out of the same collision, were tried together in the superior court before the same jury and the record here is presented in a single typewritten transcript. At the close of the trial the court directed the jury to bring in verdicts against the plaintiff and in favor of both defendants.

At the time of the collision out of which the actions arose, appellants were passengers on a jitney bus operated in San Francisco by respondent Barnes. Appellants were both standing on the left running-board of the jitney bus facing toward the interior of the bus,…