The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-20
Jury Gets
|Galles-Druck
Injury Case
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When he first saw the Gales
| truck, he testified, it was in the
| middle of the pavement about IL
to Is feet ahead. He applied his
brakes, thinking he could stop but
couldn't and slowed down to about
20 to rs miles an hour. He hit the
truck squarely in the rear, he said.
LOgis Amuses Judge
Several times in his testimony
he was stopped by Kelley who OBJ
| jected that he was answering ques-
tons with uncalled-for detail.
"In my judgement the truck
was not moving" said Druck.
Asked by Kelley on cross-exam-
nation if he was sure it wasn't
moving, he said, eff I didn't see
it moving, I'd have to say it was
standing still, wouldn't II"
Obviously amused, Judge Gisla-
son remarked, "Then if you didn't
see it standing still, you'd have to
say it was moving, wouldn't your"
A moment later, he puzzled, 81
don't quite understand it."
His car, 1888 sedan, was two
months old at the time and worth
$3.50 before the accident, $3.50 af-
terward, Druck said.
He further testified he couldn't
remember his conversation with
Gales, just that he "got an awful
bawling out"
Called to the stand, Mrs. Druck
said her knees had been injured
and she had been unable to work
for some time.
Bernice Bruins, %, said her in
juries included a sprained left
ankle, broken nose and cut lip.
Her sister who followed her to
the stand gave practically repeat
testimony on the accident.
F.. HI. Anthony testified as to
the distances of the nearest
| houses.
Says Tail Light Was On
The plaintiff rested following
the testimony Of DR.. T. E. Finn
| who treated Miss Bruins and Mrs.
Druck. He said Mrs. Druck's knee
still bothers her.
Mr.. Gales, SO, testified, "There
lis no doubt in my mind" but
what the truck tail light twas on.
His machine was moving, he
said, not over 20 miles an hour.
His first knowledge of anyone
behind him, he said, was flash
of lights through the back win
dow.
He said Druck said to him,
"I'm to blame for this. I'm COM
| pletely covered by insurance.
Take your truck to Burris and get
it fixed"
Gales said Druck also repeated
he was to blame at the hospital.
Lakotich said the truck tail light
was burning at the time of the
accident, as hes was told to look
at the light every morning before
the truck started.
This morning Mrs. Olga Gund-
ermann to whose home Lakotich
came asking to use a telephone,
r. w. Pryor and Ray Burris testi-
fled.
Mr.. and Mrs. Druck and Evelyn
Bruins were called on rebuttal.
The Carruth case was one OF
the fastest moving trials conduct
ed here in years and attracted
standing-room- only crowds al
every session.
Mrs. Carruth was first witness
as Mr.. Flor and Mr.. Barnes open
ed the plaintiffs case Friday
morning.
She said that Arthur Gribbons
of Redwood Falls drove her and
her husband to a dance at Morton
the night of the accident. Because
Gribbons did not plan to stay, she
testified, they arranged with Yer
non Schaefer of Redwood Falls to
bring them home in his roadster
| The three went into the Town
Tavern at Morton during inter-
mission she said. Then they went
| back to the dance hall.
On cross examination she swore
that the trio had only one beer
apiece at the Tavern. that she
didn't meet Ted Kruger or Kath-
crime Treu at Morton, that she
was not drinking bottle of soft
drink spiked with alcohol.
Denies Seeing Patroman
Asked if she hadn't told L. D.
Ward, highway patrolman, that
she was afraid to ride back with
Schaefer and that she had eau
toned her husband against riding
with him, she said, 81 didn't tell
him anything. I never even saw
| him."
She said they had been in the
Tavern mot over 10 minutes y
/ and then returned to the dance
hall, although intermission was
still in effect.
She said they left Morton about
l a. m. stopping at the Y club al
Morton for water for the radiator
She said she and her husband did
not leave the car, that Schaefel
went into the place after a pail Of
water.
She denied under cross examin-
alton by Attorney Warren King oil
Minneapolis that she had been sc
intoxicated she fell down as she
left the dance hall and was car
ried by her husband.
To questions concerning giving
the patrolman a written state
ment, excessive drinking or high
speed of the Schaefer car, she
consistently answered 'No."
Says Speed Was As
In her best judgment, she said
the Schaefer car was travelling d;
miles an hour at the time of ths
accident which occurred near the
fairgrounds as they were coming
east to Redwood Falls.
/ They noticed the Me1lcchuraada,