Burch v. Levy Bros. Box Co.

ARCHBALD, J. pro tem.

Plaintiff, respondent herein, was injured while standing on the sidewalk opposite a forty foot red zone marked on the curb, and about twenty inches back from the curb, in downtown Los Angeles, when he was struck by the right rear end of defendants’ truck as it was backing up to the curb on an angle that brought the right rear wheel in contact with the curb some distance ahead of the left wheel. The truck was equipped with a stake body loaded with tiers of wooden boxes which shut off all view through the rear window of the cab; there was a rear view mirror on the left door…