Crosby v. Martinez

Plaintiffs in this personal injury action appeal from an adverse judgment which was entered pursuant to a jury’s verdict. They rely upon errors of law which are claimed to have been highly prejudicial.

Plaintiffs, two Negro women, were injured in a collision of automobiles which occurred within the intersection of San Pedro Street and Vernon Avenue, in the city of Los Angeles. Plaintiffs were traveling east on Vernon and defendants south on San Pedro; this was shortly before noon on May 25, 1955. Defendants’ automobile ran head-on into the left rear fender of plaintiffs’ ear, a 1951 Mercury,…