Grob v. Hahn, 10033
Decision Date | 02 July 1963 |
Docket Number | No. 10033,10033 |
Parties | Leo GROB, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Eldon HAHN, Defendant and Appellant. |
Court | South Dakota Supreme Court |
Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, Carleton R. Hoy, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.
James E. Doyle, Yankton, John A. Engel, Avon, for plaintiff and respondent.
Plaintiff instituted this action to recover damages for injury to his person and property arising out of an accident involving the automobile which he was driving and a truck- mounted corn sheller driven by the defendant. The mishap occurred on Highway 37 about nine miles south of Tripp, South Dakota, where that highway is intersected by a graveled road running east and west, shortly before 7:55 a. m. on June 7, 1960.
The jury returned interrogatories finding that plaintiff's total damage was $19,150 and that his contributory negligence was 25% of the total combined negligence proximately causing the injury and the defendant's negligence was 75% of it. Under the mandate of our comparative negligence law the jury awarded him the reduced sum of $14,362.50 for which judgment was entered. By motions for a directed verdict, judgment notwithstanding the verdict and a new trial, defendant presented to the trial court his claim that plaintiff should be denied recovery because of his contributory negligence. This contention is the principal basis of his appeal from the judgment.
As stated by the trial judge in his memorandum 'no really substantial question exists as to what took place at and immediately preceding this accident.' For a factual background we borrow from his statement of the facts: This occurred near the north edge of the intersecting graveled road.
The trial judge's recitation of the facts goes on to state: Plaintiff's automobile went into the ditch on the east side of the blacktop, south of the graveled road, and overturned.
These additional pertinent facts are also noted by the trial judge: ...
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