Connaker v. Hart

Sheran, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying plaintiffs’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

Plaintiff driver, who was stopped at an intersection on University Avenue about eight blocks west of the St. Paul city limits, was “rear-ended” by defendant, who had tried to stop his car but could not. The trial court determined that plaintiff was free from contributory negligence as a matter of law and submitted to the jury for its consideration the issues of defendant’s negligence, proximate cause, and damages. The jury found defendant not negligent…