length to the point where it came to a stop.
"A. I [it] traveled about a car length * * *."
Mrs. Norma Rush, living in the immediate vicinity of the accident, was hanging clothes in her backyard when she heard a loud screech of brakes, which lasted about 2 seconds. She ran to the side of her house and, while she did not remember clearly what happened, she thought the next thing she saw was Mrs. Luta with Danny in her arms. It was her recollection that the cars in the street were parked "almost bumper to bumper."
At the trial, Danny was called to testify on his own behalf. The court refused to allow him to testify as to the happening of the accident because at the time ofor possibly 2 feet farther east, which would have placed it on its right side of the centerline. If the boy was "running with all his might," as the testimony shows, it would have taken only a step or two more for him to have still collided with defendants' car.
Plaintiffs argue, however, that Danny had the right-of-way while on the west side of the street and that in refusing to give the instruction the court deprived him of his right-of-way, citing Pettit v. Lifson, 238 Minn. 349, 355, 57 N.W. (2d) 34, 38. The situation was different in the Pettit case. There, defendant's delivery truck collided with a 9-year-old boy. The accident occurred in a 20-foot alley that ran north and south. The driver of the truck was