Hoffmann v. Krause

A directed verdict in favor of defendants was a correct ruling in this case. As a matter of law, no proximate causal connection is shown between the negligence, if any, of the defendants in parking their cars as they .did, and the damage to the plaintiff’s automobile. The evidence most favorable to plaintiff reveals that the intervening acts of (plaintiff in failing to control his car were the sole cáuse of the accident. His testimony is that he saw the two parked vehicles when approximately three hundred feet away. He then applied his brakes and skidded off the highway. But he, at no time,…