Tom Walton v. Marlen R. Owens and Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
After an adverse jury verdict for the defendant Owens in a highway intersection collision case, the plaintiif Walton appeals on the narrow ground that the ■Court erred in instructing the jury that the plaintiif was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law and, almost reversing his field, in failing to give a requested instruction on the right •of way which would have made the defendant Owens guilty of negligence as a matter of law.
Considerable emphasis is made in Walton’s brief on the disputed (or admitted) facts concerning Owens’ conduct in driving…
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