White v. Peters

Two law suits, springing from the same automobile collision, were consolidated for trial. The first action was commenced by Peter T. White, driver of one automobile; the second by his passenger, George A. Buster, individually and as administrator of the estate of Marion R. Buster, his wife, who died as a result of the collision.

In addition to a denial of his own negligence, defendant Robert D. Peters, the driver of the other automobile, pleaded that plaintiff White was chargeable with contributory negligence because (1) he had failed to have his car equipped “with the proper required…