In Re Estate of Cook

A petition on appeal against the estate of a deceased alleged negligent damage in a tractor-automobile collision at a controlled intersection. During the trial the district court dismissed the petition at the close of petitioner’s case-in-chief. Petitioner appeals. He asserts that he satisfied the burden of producing evidence and that the court in excluding evidence misconstrued an amendment to the dead, man’s statute.

The intersection, located in the Village of Humphrey, was controlled by 4 stop signs, one at each corner. One street ran north-south, the other east-west. Each, was…