Johnson v. Gustafson

Plaintiff sued the defendant to recover damages for personal injuries. On a trial of the case before a judge and a jury, a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $2,500.00. Afterwards a new trial of the case was ordered and on the retrial the jury found the defendant not guilty; judgment was entered upon the verdict and plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

There is very little conflict in the evidence. The facts as disclosed by the evidence are that about six o’clock in the evening of December 20, 1919, plaintiff was driving a horse and sleigh west in the public highway from La Grange…