Nimits v. Motor Transport Co.

The collision occurred between the automobile-transport truck of the respondent, Magdalene Nimits, and the parked motor transport of the appellant Motor Transport Company. Appellant contends, first, that the trial court erred in refusing to set aside the finding of the jury that the appellant’s driver’s admitted negligence in not carrying in his truck the fusees, flares, and lights required by sec. 85.06 (2) (d), Stats., was a proximate cause of the collision between appellant’s parked tractor-semitrailer and respondent’s moving tractor-semitrailer. Secondly, appellant contends that the court…