Court Opinion

ID: 9717990
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:14:15.025236+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:26:52.951776
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BIEGELMEIER, Judge
(dissenting).
It is undisputed the driver of plaintiff's automobile gave a left turn signal as he approached, entered and turned in the intersection. Defendant as a witness did not deny it, his testimony being he first saw the DeBerg auto when he was 130 feet from the point of collision in the intersection and the next thing he saw was when "I hit it". The court has held a person driving an automobile must keep a careful lookout to avoid a collision with other highway users. Aaker v. Quissell, 60 S.D. 513, 244 N.W. 889, and Robertson v. Hennrich, 72 S.D. 37, 29 N.W.2d 329. It is not only apparent, as was concluded in Kundert v. B. F. Goodrich Co., 70 S.D. 464, 181 N.W. 786, but admitted here, defendant did not look at all for this last 130 feet before the collision. Failure to do so is negligence, Robertson v. Hennrich, supra, and the jury should have been so advised.
ROBERTS, J., concurs in dissent.