Rasmussen v. Thilges

STUART, Justice.

This lawsuit is a consequence of a head-on collision between two vehicles driven by farm neighbors. The jury denied recovery on both the claim and counterclaim. Plaintiff has appealed assigning 19 errors, most of which are interrelated questions of the admissibility of certain evidence affecting the sufficiency of the evidence.

There is little serious conflict over most of the facts. At about 4:30 p. m. on November 20, 1965, a sunny, dry day, LeRoy Thilges, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was driving his father’s pickup in an easterly direction on a gravel road in Palo…