Swinkels v. Wisconsin Michigan Power Co.

In our view, the only question that need be determined upon this appeal is :

Does the evidence support the finding that the defendant's driver failed to exercise ordinary care and that such failure caused the plaintiff’s injuries?

At the outset we should state the material facts. At about midnight on the evening of June 16, 1934, the plaintiff, a single man, twenty-three years of age, left McCabe’s Tavern in the village of Little Chute, intending to drive his automobile to Appleton. Accompanying him were two young ladies — Catherine Lemmens and Frances Blohm — and a young man, John Lemmens.…