Court Opinion

ID: 9657510
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:28:21.288148+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:45.850909
License: Public Domain

Grant, J.,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. In my judgment the recital of facts in the majority opinion shows negligence on the part of both plaintiff and defendant Schufeldt. I do not believe plaintiff’s negligence in not properly judging the location, direction, and speed of a “small light way down by the Flower Patch” on a dark, rainy night can be considered, as a matter of law, gross in comparison with the negligence of defendant in never seeing plaintiff at all as plaintiff, using his cane to aid his progress with his artificial right leg, walked across one-half of a 58-foot-wide, unoccupied street. I believe the case should have been submitted to the jury under appropriate instruction as to comparative negligence of plaintiff and defendant.
Shanahan, J., joins in this dissent.