Takahashi v. White Truck & Transfer Co.

SHINN, J., pro tem.

In consolidated actions for damages for personal injuries suffered in a single accident, the court after verdicts in favor of plaintiffs, notwithstanding such verdicts, entered judgments in favor of the defendant. Plaintiffs appeal separately upon a single record.

Some two hours before.sunrise on a rainy morning plaintiffs, traveling in an automobile driven by plaintiff Takahashi at a speed of thirty-five or forty miles per hour, ran into the rear of a slowly moving trailer loaded with oil well casing. The question on each appeal is whether there was substantial evidence…