De Goey v. Hermsen

Defendants claim that the answers of the jury are not sustained by the evidence; that as a matter of law plaintiff Amelia De Goey was at least fifty per cent negligent; and that the damages are excessive. The nature of the contentions requires a review of the facts.

Plaintiff Amelia De Goey, a married woman thirty-eight years of age, accompanied by her husband, drove to Little Chute about 7 o’clock in the evening on January IS, 1938. She parked her car on the south side of Main street. Main street runs east and west, and parallel parking was the rule upon that street. She and her husband…