Haagenson v. Matanuska Valley Lines, Inc.

FOLTA, District Judge.

In the foregoing cases, consolidated for trial, the plaintiff Haagenson seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained by him while a passenger in defendant’s bus as a result of a collision between the bus and plaintiff Frostad’s automobile on November 15, 1949; while Frostad seeks to recover damages for the destruction of his car.

During the noon hour of that day, as the bus was proceeding on its regular run in a northerly direction on “I” Street and Frostad was proceeding in a westerly direction on Sixth Avenue, in Anchorage, Alaska, the cars collided in the northwest…