Molin v. Wark
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $5,000 for personal injuries to plaintiff’s minor son, caused by the defendant negligently driving his automobile at an excessive and unlawful rate of speed and upon the wrong side of Rice street, St. Paul, to wit: the left hand side of the street. The answer admitted the collision with plaintiff’s son, but denied the other allegations of the complaint, and alleged the contributory negligence of the son.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $5,000 for personal injuries to plaintiff’s minor son, caused by the defendant negligently driving his automobile at an excessive and unlawful rate of speed and upon the wrong side of Rice street, St. Paul, to wit: the left hand side of the street. The answer admitted the collision with plaintiff’s son, but denied the other allegations of the complaint, and alleged the contributory negligence of the son. The reply was a general denial. The ease was tried before Kelly, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
This action is based upon the charge that respondent’s son, Alfred Molin, while riding a motorcycle on Nice street, in the city of St. Paul, was negligently and unlawfully run into by appellant’s automobile.
Young Molin testified that he and his companion, Jorgenson, were riding south on the right-hand side of Nice street at a speed of four or five miles an hour, and when nearing Central avenue they saw an automohile coming from the east on Central avenue; that it turned rapidly into Nice street, and ran in a diagonal direction across to the west side; and that he (Molin) thereupon turned…
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