Albrecht v. Tradewell

The principal contention of the defendants is that, assuming that there is testimony supporting the jury’s findings of negligence on the part of each of the actors, nevertheless it should have been found by the court as a matter of law that the negligence of the plaintiff was equal to or greater than that of the defendant Tradewell. That contention requires that we state the testimony in some detail.

The accident occurred on Sunday, September 16, 1951, between 7:30 and 8 p. m. on Highway 45, a north-and-south road, in the unincorporated village of Summit Lake in Lang-lade county. The highway…