Huntley v. County of Santa Clara

Jury verdict in this wrongful death action was for defendants. Plaintiffs’ motion for new trial was granted upon the ground of insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. (Code Civ. Proc., § 657, subd. 6.) Defendants appeal from this order.

Decedent, husband and father of plaintiffs, died as the result of collision of his pickup truck with a fire truck of defendant district. The accident occurred a few minutes before 6 p. m. February 26, 1955, a rainy day. The truck, occupied only by driver Aiello, had returned from an alarm to the fire station located on the south side of the Los…