Losching v. Fischer

The following opinion was filed January 7, 1941:

Fairchild, J.

All six plaintiffs were guests in Fischer’s car when it collided with that of the defendant LIunt. The accident occurred about 1 o’clock in the morning of July 23, 1939, about a mile and a half east of the village of La Crescent on United States Highway No. 61 in Minnesota, not far west of the Mississippi river bridge. At that point the road was a three-lane highway running in a general east-west direction. Each of the outside lanes was twelve and one-half feet wide and the center lane was ten feet wide. Fischer had stopped at La…