Strand v. Boehland

Plaintiff, while on a motorcycle riding north on the paved trunk highway between Mankato and St. Peter, and defendant, while driving south on the same highway in his automobile, had a collision. Defendant turned to the left across plaintiff’s course onto a side road. This action is to recover damages for personal injuries and damage to the motorcycle.

Plaintiff urges that he is entitled to judgment here as a matter of law under the rule of Jovaag v. O’Donnell, 189 Minn. 315, 249 N. W. 676, upon the grounds that defendant turned suddenly and abruptly across his course. There was no motion for a…