Scaletta v. Silva

The defendant, J. J. Silva, has appealed from judgments which were rendered against him in two consolidated automobile damage eases growing out of successive collisions.

The appellant contends that Mrs. Carlsen, one of the defendants in the first action, was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law, for failure to reasonably regulate the speed of her automobile, in view of the admitted fact that, at the time of the accident, she was confronted with the glaring lights of an approaching machine; that the judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in the first action is inconsistent with Mr.…