Scott v. Flanagan

These appeals are from judgments in actions for damages awarded for the death of Donald Scott, aged nineteen years, and Berta Rideout, a young woman of twenty-two years of age, who were killed as a result of a collision between a Ford automobile in which they were riding, and an oil truck belonging to the Gilmore Oil Company, on the Merced-Yosemite highway, at about 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon of August 11, 1934.

Andrew Paul Flanagan, one of the appellants herein, was operating the tank truck loaded with about four hundred or five hundred gallons of gasoline, and proceeding in an easterly…