Alt v. Krebs

The defendant, Maud Krebs, appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, Jessie Alt, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in an automobile accident.

The accident occurred on the evening of March 4, 1937, at about the hour of 7 o’clock on the Mount Hood Loop Highway about thirteen miles east of the town of Sandy in Clackamas county, Oregon. Due to engine trouble the defendant’s car, which was being driven by her in an easterly direction, stalled on the highway close to the right-hand edge of the pavement. A little later the plaintiff,…