Court Opinion

ID: 6659974
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:01:02.215797+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:00:07.493297
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Barnes and Fawcett, J. J.,
dissenting.
We are unable to give our assent to the conclusion reached by the majority of our associates. As we view the record in this case, the evidence fails to establish negligence on the part of the defendant. It appears that the driver of defendant’s team was proceeding north on Twentieth street in the city of Omaha at the time of the accident in a reasonable and proper manner; that he had no knoAvledge of the presence of the injured boy in the rear of his wagon, or that the boy was attempting to pass between the wagon and the fence, until he was opposite the front Avlieels of the wagon; that Avhen the driver first saw the boy it was then too late for him to avoid the accident, and the proximate cause of the injury complained of was the attempt of the boy to pass betAveen the defendant’s wagon and the fence, when there Avas ample room to pass in safety on the other side of the wagon. We are therefore of opinion that the evidence does not support the verdict, and the judgment of the district court should be reversed.