Court Opinion

ID: 9689070
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:18:21.984568+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:44.230063
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Boslaugh, J.,
dissenting in part.
Although it is not clear from the record whether the motor grader was stopped at the time of the collision, the undisputed evidence is that it was traveling at only 3 miles per hour as the McGuire automobile approached it.
Under these circumstances, the fact that the motor grader was traveling in the wrong direction was not a substantial factor in causing the collision and was not a proximate cause of the accident. As this court stated in Most v. Cedar County, 126 Neb. 54, 57, 252 N.W. 465, 466 (1934), the motor grader “occupied the same space in the road” whether it was going toward the west or the east.
I would affirm the judgment as to the defendant Sorensen Sand and Gravel Company.
Clinton and Hastings, JJ., join in this dissent.