Haugen v. Wittkopf

The plaintiff, a guest in an automobile driven by the defendant Wittkopf, his host, sued his host and his insurer to recover for injuries sustained in a collision of the automobile with another automobile. The host’s car ran into the rear of another car stopped ahead of it on the right-hand lane of a three-lane highway. Trial was had to a jury. The jury found that the host was negligent as to- lookout in operating his automobile “at and immediately prior to the' collision,” and that his such negligence was causal. This finding is clearly supported by the evidence. They also found that the…