King v. Unger

This is an appeal by defendants from an order by the trial court granting plaintiff a new trial after ‘ the jury, at the instruction of the trial judge, returned a verdict in favor of the defendants in an action to recover damages for personal injuries.

Viewing the evidence most favorable to the plaintiff, as we must do in reviewing a judgment based upon a directed verdict (Estate of Lances, 216 Cal. 397, 400 [14 Pac. (2d) 768]), the facts are these: About 10 A. M. on February 27, 1937, plaintiff arrived at the northwest corner of Broadway and Ninth Streets, where they intersect in the city of…