Brown v. Hayes

CARMODY, Justice.

Defendants appeal from the award of property damages in favor of the various other parties, following a non-jury trial of two consolidated cases which arose out of one “chain reaction” automobile accident.

The only real question is whether there was contributory negligence as a matter of law so as to bar a .recovery by one of the plaintiffs, although defendants also assert a procedural error with respect to the trial court’s findings and conclusions.

The real parties from the standpoint of this appeal are the defendants Hayes, who were defendants in both of the cases below, and…