Short v. Bollen

This was an action to recover damages to plaintiff’s automobile, occasioned when the defendant backed his automobile out of his private driveway and collided with plaintiff’s car. Plaintiff secured a judgment of $39.66 in the municipal court, and upon appeal to the district court a jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $150.

The defendant and appellant testified for himself, and he called no other witness. In brief, his testimony is to the effect that on the morning of September 11, 1934, he was backing his car from his private driveway from the south into A street in the city of…