Packar v. Brooks

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Two negligence cases arising out of a collision between two motor vehicles were tried together below and resulted in a verdict for each plaintiff. From each of the judgments thereafter entered, defendant appeals. The two appeals have been similarly submitted here.

As is customary in cases of this type, each driver claims the other to be at fault. Plaintiffs are husband and wife and reside on a farm abutting on highway No. 95, which runs in a general northerly and southerly direction between Stillwater and Marine on St. Croix. East of the highway there is a private…