Betz v. Menville

This suit is brought for the damage to plaintiff’s Cadillac automobile resulting from a collision with defendant’s Chevrolet automobile at the intersection of Willow and Robert streets. The defendant in his answer denied all responsibility for the accident but, subsequently, in argument and in brief before this court admitted that he was negligent, insisting, however, that no recovery can be had because plaintiff’s son, who was driving plaintiff’s car at the time of the collision, was contributorily negligent in that, at a time when he might have avoided the accident, he failed to do so.

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