Argo v. Southern Pacific Co.

In this action by a wife and children for the death of their husband and father, the court at the completion of plaintiffs’ case granted a nonsuit. From the judgment entered thereon and from the order denying a motion for a new trial this appeal is prosecuted.

For a correct understanding of the questions involved on this appeal the facts of the ease may be thus briefly narrated. On the morning of September 29, 1936, at about the hour of 7:40 o’clock, the deceased, while driving his automobile in a westerly direction on Arvilla Avenue, a public highway in Los Angeles County, across the Southern…