Barrett v. Nash Finch Co.

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff recovered a verdict in a wrongful-death action, and defendants appeal.

The appeal presents two questions for decision: (1) Whether the driver of an automobile, who in violation of statute turned from an intersecting highway onto the lane on his left side of the road adjacent to a raised concrete island of a four-lane highway having two lanes on each side of the island, was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law because of his violation of the statute, where because of mechanical difficulties his car stopped and its lights went out, but the place where…