Roberts v. Carlson

Plaintiff and defendant, each driving his own car, had an accident at the center of graveled intersecting country-roads. Plaintiff approached the intersection from the right and defendant from the left. A jury’s verdict awarded plaintiff $1,200 damages. Defendant appeals, impressing upon this court by able brief and argument that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence more than slight as a matter of law, requiring the trial court to sustain his motions to direct a verdict for defendant, and that the trial court erred in its refusal of certain requested instructions and the giving of…