Weck v. Reno Traction Co.
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by Charles E. Week against the Reno Traction Company, for damages to an automobile. From a judgment for plaintiff and denial of motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Questions of the conflict of evidence with known physical facts have frequently been passed upon by courts. (Hayne, New Trial and Appeal, sec. 238; Elliott on Evidence, sec. 39; Bomseheuer v. Con. Tr.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action by Charles E. Week against the Reno Traction Company, for damages to an automobile. From a judgment for plaintiff and denial of motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Questions of the conflict of evidence with known physical facts have frequently been passed upon by courts. (Hayne, New Trial and Appeal, sec. 238; Elliott on Evidence, sec. 39; Bomseheuer v. Con. Tr. Co., 47 Atl. 872; Hunter v. N. Y.,0. & W. Ry. Co., 23 N. E. 9; Payne v. Chicago & A. R. Co., 38 S. W. 308; Young v. Railway Co., 57 Kan.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Coleman, J. :
Respondent, who was plaintiff in the lower court, on December 17, 1913, while out in his automobile in the city of Reno, drove along the east side of Elm Street, and upon reaching Sierra Street turned in a southerly direction; and there being a wagon backed up against the sidewalk, with a horse hitched to it, whose head came within three feet of the track of appellant, an auto-truck standing just beyond the horse and wagon, and *291another horse and wagon standing in a similar position to the one first mentioned and a short distance beyond the auto-truck, it was…
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