Wilson v. Bittner

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This is an action for damages for personal injuries. The cause was tried by the court without a jury and plaintiff had judgment for $825, from which defendant has appealed. It appears from the evidence that plaintiff, while operating a motorcycle on a public highway, met a truck owned and operated by defendant and proceeding in an opposite direction and, in passing the same, caught his left hand between one of the handle-bars of the motorcycle and a projection on defendant’s truck, causing one of his fingers to be crushed and permanently injuring his hand. At that point there was a cement…