Grandy v. Southern Pacific Co.

McCOMB, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants entered after the trial court granted defendants’ motion for a directed verdict.

Viewing the evidence most favorably to plaintiff (Newson v. Hawley, 205 Cal. 188, 189 [270 Pac. 364]), the facts in the instant case are:

That plaintiff was struck by a box ear propelled by a. switch engine which was backing across a driveway-sidewalk on a curve in a northeasterly direction on Alameda Street in the city of Los Angeles. Plaintiff was pursuing a route, followed by him over a period of five years, west on Bay Street to the…