Tutsch v. Omaha Structural Steel Works

Redick, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages to plaintiff’s automobile, claimed to have been caused by negligence of defendant. Plaintiff alleges that, as he was driving west on the Lincoln Highway about 6:30 a. m., December 15, 1915, he was suddently confronted with a ditch about ten feet wide across the road; that he was traveling at a moderate speed, and upon discovery of the ditch applied his brakes and turned the car to the left to avoid the ditch, and ran into and upon a pile of dirt on the south side of the road, thereby upsetting his car and damaging it in the sum of…