Cooney v. Pirrelli

On the evening of August 2, 1925, respondent, Frank Cooney, his wife and child and William Aspe and wife, respondent’s stepfather and mother, respectively, and Mr. and Mrs. William Schnorr, father-in-law and mother-in-law, respectively, of respondent, were occupants of a Stephens seven-passenger automobile returning from a trip to Stanislaus County to San Francisco. When near Livermore, Alameda County, respondent, who was at the wheel, pulled off and clear of the paved portion of the highway by two feet, stopped his car, set his brakes and got out to examine the mechanism, which was not…