Hoppe v. Hughes

REYNOLDS, Justice.

Survivors of a head-on collision between two automobiles on a two-lane roadway, Edgar Hoppe and wife, Marjorie Hoppe, are aggrieved by a take-nothing judgment rendered in their action to recover damages from the estate of Hershel Hubert Olds, deceased, when the jury failed to find that Olds was negligent, even though his automobile crossed the center line and collided with the Hoppes’ automobile in their lane of traffic. The evidence presented to excuse Olds for his statutory violation amounts to no more than mere speculation that he was incapacitated by a heart attack and…