Crist v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

Plaintiff George Dubois owned a Ford car. His brother-in-law, Lester Crist, operated the car while Dubois was riding with him. Each brought a separate action against defendant involving the same accident as well as the same questions of fact and law. By stipulation they were consolidated and tried together. It was stipulated upon the trial that the defense of contributory negligence, if established by the evidence, applied equally to the case of each plaintiff, and if the jury should find, or the court should hold, that Crist was guilty of contributory negligence, such negli gence would be…