Dismukes v. Michigan Express, Inc.

A jury in the Berrien county circuit court awarded plaintiff $15,000 damages for injuries sustained as the result of plaintiff’s collision with defendant’s parked tractor and trailer.

Defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto was granted by the trial court on the ground that plaintiff was guilty of negligence as a matter of law and that plaintiff’s negligence was a proximate cause of his injuries.

Plaintiff, on November 14, 1958, at about 8 p.m.r was driving a 1954 Chevrolet north on North State street in the city of St. Joseph, Michigan. North State is a 2-lane, rough, uneven…