Willard v. Fast

This appeal on questions of law is from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict in favor of plaintiff in an action for damages to person and property, growing out of an automobile collision at the intersection of two county highways over neither of which travelers had preferential rights as to travelers over the other.

Plaintiff’s cause of action is based on a single negligent act in that it is claimed the accident was caused by reason of the fact that defendant was operating his automobile at a “high and dangerous rate of speed, 50 to 60 miles per hour” in approaching the intersection. The…