Delamar Allison v. Ward

State highways numbered 4 and 53 cross each other at right angles in Nevada County, and both of them were being improved by spreading gravel on them. While the work of hauling and spreading the gravel was in progress, John Ward, Jr., who was thirty-one years of age, drove a Ford touring car over the point of intersection of these roads. His car had the back seat cut away and the entire top removed so as to make a light truck which he called a “Hoopi'e.” His car truck had only one seat, and seated thereon with him were his father, John Ward, Sr., who was sixty-four years of age, and Henry…