Zawlocki v. Houtz

The basic facts of the incident from which this appeal has arisen are that defendant Houtz, while delivering a newspaper, stopped her car in front of plaintiff, and that plantiff while stopping his car behind her received injuries when a third car in the same lane of traffic collided with the rear end of plaintiff’s car, the third car then colliding with a car traveling in the opposite direction in the opposing lane of traffic. Plaintiff sued defendant Houtz on the theory that she was negligent in stopping in the manner which she did, that her negligence concurred with the negligence of the…