Miller v. Measmer

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

The sole question in this motor vehicle accident case is whether the defendant was guilty of negligence. The verdict was for the defendant. The refusal of the court below to grant a new trial is the error assigned.

Plaintiff’s decedent stopped his truck on a branch road approximately twenty feet before its junction with a main highway. The intersection was icy and slippery. The defendant, approaching in a truck from decedent’s left on the highway, attempted to make a right turn into the branch road, but his truck skidded into decedent’s truck, injuring…