Ford v. Des Moines Ice & Cold Storage Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Ooti/rt. — Lawrence Db Grabe, Judge. Action to recover damages consequent on a collision with defendant’s ice wagon, resulting in a directed verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff moved for new trial, and, on hearing, the motion was sustained. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Ladd, O. J.
1- CTossing^street section^point. In the morning of September 4, 1917, at about 7:30 o’clock, plaintiff was driving a twin-cylinder motorcycle, with side car, along the south side of Grand Avenue, in the city of Des Moines, in an easterly direction. The rain was falling, and the pavement was slippery. As he approached-Nineteenth Street, he observed an ice wagon of the defendant company, with team attached, and at right angles with the avenue, moving slowly across in a southerly direction, and at a place several hundred feet west of Nineteenth Street, intersecting Grand Avenue. The…
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