Carey v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

The plaintiff was given judgment for damages resulting from a collision between his automobile and one of the defendant’s street-cars in the city of Sacramento. The defendant prosecutes this appeal from the judgment. Appellant contends that the evidence not only fails to show that it was negligent, but that it shows conclusively that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence.

At the time of the collision the plaintiff was driving his automobile south along Fourteenth Street and near the west curb line thereof and defendant’s street-car was going west along the north car tracks of K…