Dennis v. Gonzales

While driving westerly on Highway 66, battery trouble developed in respondent’s automobile. After his fourth attempt to make repairs, he drove about four blocks further when the motor sputtered and died. His attempts to restart his engine were of no avail. The car had come to rest in the very center of the three westbound lanes. Respondent attempted by waving a flashlight to procure assistance from oncoming motorists. At the trial he remembered three cars’ having passed him on the left, but his next consciousness came 14 days later in the county hospital. He had stood in the path of a truck…