Valencia v. Markham Co-Operative Assn.

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

These appeals involve two cases, tried together, in which verdicts were returned for defendants. The actions arose out of a collision which occurred in the city of Duluth on August 10, 1935, between an automobile owned by plaintiff Mike Valencia and driven by plaintiff Mary Valencia, wife of Mike, and a truck owned by defendant Markham Co-operative Association and driven by defendant Ed Nevanen, its employe. As the appeals must stand or fall together, we will confine this opinion to the facts as they appear in the Mary Valencia action.

The case was tried in May, 1938.…