Whitelaw v. McGilliard

Plaintiff was awarded by a jury one thousand dollars damages for personal injuries, and judgment was entered accordingly. From said judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial defendant appeals.

The accident occurred at the intersection of Broadway and Temple Street, in the city of Los Angeles. Defendant’s son, a young man seventeen years of age, was driving defendant’s automobile at an admittedly unlawful rate of speed, that is, from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, northward on the east side of Broadway, and he did not modify the speed of the motor vehicle as he…