Tracy H. v. Henriksen

Pirsig, Justice.

This action is one for damages claimed to have resulted from defendant’s negligent driving of a car. A verdict was returned for the defendant.

On the ninth day of August 1910, at about 8:20 p. m., plaintiff Tracy H. Marsh and two other ladies were returning to Minneapolis in defendant’s car. Defendant was driving the car. They were near Farmington, Minnesota, on a somewhat narrow pavement. It was dusk and raining, and, as a result of the rain, mud had been tracked upon the edge of the pavement by trucks and other traffic. Some 15 to 20 miles preceding the accident here…