Walker v. Stecher

1 Reported in 17 N.W.2d 317. Plaintiffs, wife and husband, recovered verdicts in separate actions against defendants, Anton C. Stecher and Frank Rerat, for injuries growing out of an automobile accident. Stecher appeals from an order denying his alternative motion for judgment or a new trial as to both cases. Rerat did not appeal. The cases have been consolidated on appeal.

Shortly after midnight on February 20, 1943, plaintiff Robert W. Walker was driving his Plymouth sedan easterly on Wayzata Boulevard in the city of Minneapolis. He was accompanied by his wife, plaintiff Judith Elizabeth…