Crotts v. Overnite Transportation Company

The correctness of the judgment rests on the answer given to the question: Does the evidence establish that a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries was his own negligence?

The question is answered by reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff, giving to him the benefit of all the inferences to be reasonably drawn therefrom and drawing no inference adverse to *422him not reasonably necessary from the evidence. When so viewed, the evidence establishes these facts:

The collision occurred around 3:00 p.m., 12 February 1952, on Highway 54, just outside of Burlington. The highway…