Koob v. Schmolt

I. Was there sufficient evidence of defendant’s alleged negligence to carry that issue to the jury? That is the principal question on this appeal.

*1296On May 29, 1949, at approximately 4:30 p.m. plaintiff, age twenty-three, was riding on the “buddy seat” of a motorcycle driven by Wallace Lynes, age twenty. They were traveling southward on paved highway 218. About a mile and a half south of Nashua the highway curves to the right in a westerly direction. As they approached this curve from the north defendant’s car came toward it from the south. Lynes decided’ he could not make the curve, so instead…