Zahler v. Dittmer

From a judgment for the plaintiffs in an automobile collision case tried to the court, the defendants appeal, contending that they were not negligent and that plaintiff Joseph Zahler was negligent in driving over the center line of the highway and that such negligence was a proximate cause of the collision, as a matter of law.

The four findings of fact that bear upon the issues of negligence and proximate cause are as follows:

“II. That the Lowell River Road is an asphalt surfaced public highway about 16% feet wide, . . . which runs in a generally easterly and westerly direction; that the farm…