Reed v. Cortez

On September 17, 1945, at about 4 -.40 a. m. the plaintiff, Judd A. Reed, was driving his Ford sedan, in which his wife, Pauline Reed, was riding as a passenger, in a southerly direction on Olive-Orange Road, located in Orange County. At a point approximately one mile south of Olive and just north of the intersection of Taft Avenue, plaintiff collided with a truck operated by defendant Donato Cortez. At the time of the accident and prior thereto, Cortez was accompanied by a Mexican national known as Plat Pace, and whose true name was Metios Pycola. The evidence shows that Cortez had been…