Tieman v. Red Top Cab Co.

GRAY, J., pro tern.

The alleged owner and the alleged operator of a taxicab, jointly, appeal from a judgment, based upon a verdict awarding a widow damages for her husband’s death, caused by injuries received in a collision with such taxicab. The only testimony as to the accident is given by decedent’s then companion, produced as a witness on behalf of respondent. He testified that, between the hours of 7 and 8 on Christmas eve, the decedent, another and himself, after walking westerly on the north sidewalk of Folsom Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, in the city of San Francisco,…