Thelen v. Spilman

Matson, Justice.

In two automobile collision cases consolidated for trial, third-party defendants appeal from judgments against them in favor of the plaintiffs, and from judgments against plaintiffs absolving the other defendant from negligence, one of which judgments also awarded damages to such other defendant against the third-party defendants.

The car collision occurred July 27, 1954, on Highway No. 10 about five miles east of Staples, Minnesota. Plaintiff E. J. Thelen (herein sometimes called Thelen), accompanied by his wife, plaintiff Marie Thelen, was driving easterly several car lengths…