Zechiel v. Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp.

This is an action by an infant through his

guardian ad litem to recover damages sustained by being run into by an autotruck belonging to and operated by defendant. The infant, a boy four and one-half years of age and crippled by the loss of both legs from about the knee down, was riding a tricycle propelled by his hands, his accustomed mode of locomotion. He was in the yard of a house occupied by his grandmother, and was proceeding-on his tricycle to enter upon and cross the street toward the home of his own parents nearly opposite. The truck of defendant, which had been standing at the curb…