Storhaugen v. Motor Truck Service Co.

Plaintiff recovered a verdict for damages sustained when a passenger bus operated by defendant collided with a Ford car owned and driven by plaintiff upon a public highway near Staples. From the order denying judgment or a new trial defendant appeals.

The first proposition is that plaintiff’s contributory negligence appeared as a matter of law. The accident occurred after dark on the evening of August 31, 1925. Plaintiff, a meat dealer at Motley, a few miles east of Staples, drove to Staples to replenish his stock. As he drove into Staples it was dusk and, attempting to turn on the lights of…