Dorn v. City & County of San Francisco

GOODELL, J.—

Respondent sued for personal injuries and recovered a verdict and judgment for $14,056.60 against both defendants. The cable company abandoned its appeal leaving as the sole appellant the city, against whom the action was prosecuted under the Public Liability Act of 1923 (Stats. 1923, p. 675; 2 Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1944, Act 5619).

On July 26, 1948, at noontime the respondent, a woman of 64, was walking westerly on the southerly side of Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, and while crossing Jones Street in the marked crosswalk she tripped at the westerly rail of the cable…