Grapentin v. Harvey

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court which denied defendants’ motion for a new trial.

This case involves an automobile accident which occurred about noon on March 3, 1959, at a “Y” intersection of Excelsior Boulevard and Quentin Avenue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Excelsior Boulevard runs generally east and west at that point, and Quentin Avenue approaches from the southwest and terminates at Excelsior Boulevard.

Mr. and Mrs. Grapentin, plaintiffs herein, were traveling west on Excelsior Boulevard. Mr. Grapentin, driving his 1952 Studebaker, made a left turn…