Bolster v. Cooper

OLSEN, Justice.

Defendants separately appeal from orders denying their respective alternative motions for judgment or a new trial.

The action is one to recover damages for personal injury claimed to have been caused by the negligence of defendant Cooper in operating an automobile, driven by him in the business of his employer, the defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The two appeals have been here presented and argued together. The two questions raised by each appeal are: (1) Whether the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law; (2) whether the verdict is so…