Melcher v. Stengel

Per Curiam,

Plaintiffs, father and minor son, recovered separate verdicts in the court below against defendant, for damages resulting from injuries sustained by the son in a collision between a motorcycle, ridden by him, and an automobile truck, driven by an agent of defendant. Defendant moved for judgment n. o. v., urging that plaintiff Cyril Melcher had been guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law. The motion was overruled, and judgments were entered on the verdicts; these appeals followed,

The evidence showed that some time after dark on the evening of September 13, 1922, Cyril…