Schneider v. Steindler

A situation rather unusual in automobile collision cases is here presented by the defendant’s repeated frank admissions as to the speed of his car. He also, with equal firmness and frankness, conceded that he made no attempt to diminish his speed or to control his car by means of his brakes. No witness at the trial contradicted him in this behalf. It would thus appear that defendant’s negligence, both as to speed and failure to control, was established as a verity in the case, and such negligence, under the facts of this case, must be taken as a proximate cause of the collision as a matter of…