Behr v. Schmidt

Loring, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court of Freeborn county denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, following a verdict for $230.60, directed in plaintiff’s favor for property damage in an automobile collision. The question presented is whether the court was justified in directing a verdict for the plaintiff.

At about noon of September 24, 1938, plaintiff was driving his Chevrolet sedan southerly on a township road in Pickerel township in Freeborn county. Defendant, whose farm buildings were west of this road, was driving his Ford car from a field east of that road across…