Dieckmann v. Signorini

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit granted defendants in an action for personal injuries suffered by plaintiff as the result of an automobile collision. The judgment was granted on the ground that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.

The scene of the accident was on a main highway in Contra Costa County known as the Marsh Creek-Clayton Road, which runs in a general easterly and westerly direction from Clayton on the east to Concord on the west. Treat Lane, sometimes called the Walnut Creek Road, is also a highway and intersects the Clayton Road at…