Demangos v. Cannon

This is an action for damages on account of a rear-end collision in which five different cars were participants. Trial by jury resulted in a verdict for all defendants. Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment entered pursuant to the verdict.

The facts as shown by the record are as follows: In clear weather February 7, 1958, at about 5:30 p.m., the five cars here involved were traveling northerly in the inner lane next to the double white line on the Santa Ana Freeway (U.S. Highway No. 101), in Orange County, near Orangethorpe Avenue, at a point near which highway construction was in progress. It…