Kraus v. Saffert

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff and defendant had an automobile collision in an intersection in New Ulm on June 22, 1939, between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. It was daylight and clear. Plaintiff was driving a 1928 Chevrolet coupé southerly on Franklin street on his way home from work, and defendant, who is a physician and surgeon, was driving a 1936 DeSoto sedan westerly on Fifth street to make a call at a hospital en route home.

Plaintiff testified that he was going from 15 to 20 miles per hour; that he slowed down at an alley a half block north of Fifth street; that when he was a distance estimated to be…