Iverson v. Knorr

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries suffered in an automobile collision. The trial court was of the opinion that plaintiff’s evidence established her contributory negligence as a matter of law, and directed a verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiff’s case. Plaintiff predicates error on that ruling.

The conduct of plaintiff is not in dispute. She was able to reconstruct the circumstances of the accident with exactitude.

Negligence of defendant and the causal relation of that negligence to plaintiff’s injury is assumed. Whether, as a matter of law, the exhibited conduct of…