Gibson v. State of California

GOOD, J. pro tem. *

The State of California appeals from a judgment in a wrongful death action in the Superior Court of Monterey County in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $5,000 damages for the death of his mother. The other defendants, Thomas Thompson, an individual doing business as Monterey Ambulance Service and Alfred Sanchez, driver of the ambulance in which decedent was being carried at the time of the accident, have not appealed. A collision between the ambulance and a state-owned dump truck occurred on July 1, 1958 at about 1:30 p.m. on State Route 117a between Monterey and Salinas on…