Henderson v. Northam
California Supreme Court
APPEAL by defendants from an order of the Superior Court of Kern County denying a new trial. Howard A. Peairs, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
VICTOR E. SHAW, J., pro tem.
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff as the result of defendants’ negligent operation of an automobile.
The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, for which judgment was entered. The appeal is from an order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial.
It appears that on Sunday afternoon, April 27, 1913, plaintiff and his wife, by means of a buggy drawn by a horse, were traveling near Bakersfield in a southerly direction on a highway known as Union Avenue when…
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