Nelson v. Signal Oil & Gas Co.

McCOMB, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiffs after a trial by jury in an action brought to recover damages for the wrongful death of the husband of one of the plaintiffs and father of the others.

Viewing the evidence most favorable to plaintiffs (Ah Gett v. Carr, 3 Cal. App. 47, 48 [84 Pac. 458]), the facts in the instant ease are:

Decedent was one of five men riding in an automobile returning from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara about 2:30 A. M. At a point on the highway approximately three miles south of Carpintería the automobile in which decedent was riding collided…