Webb v. Francis J. Lewald Coal Co.

Appeal by defendant Lewald Coal Company, its co-defendant having been granted a new trial, from a judgment for plaintiffs, husband and wife, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the wife, hereinafter referred to as respondent.

On April 2, 1928, a truck of appellant and a street-car of defendant city and county collided in such a manner as to propel the truck over on to the sidewalk and cause it to smash into the front of a building occupied by respondent as a millinery store. Respondent viewed the entire occurrence from the mezzanine floor of the building and…