Taylor v. Hardware Mutual Insurance

1. Defendant’s contention that as a matter of law Boyle’s negligence with respect to speed was not a cause of the accident, cannot prevail. On Boyle’s own testimony he drove at a speed at which he could not stop within the range of his vision. The jury could well have considered that the excessive speed prevented Boyle, when he saw the danger, from slowing down, detouring, or stopping in time to avoid a collision or at least to reduce the force of the impact to a degree where it would have been harmless. In such a case, the negligence with respect to speed is causal. Jewell v. Schmidt, 1 Wis.…