Loibl v. Niemi

The defendant, Niemi, appeals from a judgment for damages for the death of W. H. Loibl as a result of a collision between his tractor and defendant’s automobile. The plaintiff is the widow of Loibl and appears herein as the administratrix of her husband’s estate.

The complaint alleges that on October 7,1954, after 6:00, p. m., the defendant was driving and operating his 1950 Buick automobile northerly along the Lafayette-Hopewell road, a public highway, at a point approximately a mile and one-half north of the town of Hopewell; that at the same time and place the decedent, W. H. Loibl, was…