Mardesich v. City of Los Angeles

The respondent was injured by an automobile on a public street while, through fright, attempting to run from a breaking electric light pole, which was embedded in the sidewalk. In a suit against the city of Los Angeles and others, a jury returned a verdict in his favor. The defendants appealed “from the verdict . . . rendered ... on the 28th day of January, 1929, in favor of the plaintiff”, and in their demand for a transcript notified the clerk of the superior court that “the defendants in the above entitled action have appealed from the verdict herein rendered . . . and the whole thereof”.

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