Corridan v. Agranoff

I am convinced that reasonable minds must conclude that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. When his car stalled and skidded it stood in a diagonal position across the east lane of the slippery 18-foot pavement and extended three to four feet onto the west lane. This left only nine feet of pavement and cleared shoulder for a car to pass on the west. The pavement was so slippery that when King sought to stop his car it went into a whirling skid and turned end for end facing south toward defendant’s approaching car, which had been following the King car. The King car stood partly…