Kline v. Barkett

WOOD (Parker), J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $18,000 damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a collision between her automobile and defendant’s truck and trailer.

On October 24, 1942, about 7 p. m., plaintiff and her husband left Las Vegas, Nevada, in plaintiff’s sedan automobile, intending to go to Los Angeles. The husband drove the automobile and plaintiff sat on the right side of the front seat. The collision occurred about 5 o’clock the next morning in Glendora, California, on Highway 66 approximately 350 feet east of the…