McWilliams v. Los Angeles Transit Lines

—Prom ajudgment in favor of defendant after trial before a jury in an action to recover damages for personal injuries received in a collision between a streetcar and an automobile, plaintiff appeals.

Facts: After the jury had been empaneled to try an action for damages resulting from the alleged negligence of defendant, whose streetcar collided with an automobile in which plaintiff was riding, the foreman of the jury, Mr. Kroesche, read certain books on the subject of engineering which he had in his own private library. The information which he obtained therefrom, relative to the cohesive…