Reinders
Reinders v. Olsen
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Craig, J.
This is a personal action in which the plaintiff sued to recover $1,312.40 as damages for the injury sustained by her minor son, Robert Reinders. Upon a trial judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $826.15 and for her costs and disbursements therein.
Defendant’s contention that Reinders was guilty of negligence contributing to the accident which was the proximate cause of his injury cannot be sustained. The facts alleged by plaintiff are uncontradicted in regard to directions, speed, and actual collision.
The following facts are undisputed: Robert Reinders, the minor son of plaintiff, was riding a motorcycle in an easterly direction along the south side of Third Street. That at a point where Third Street intersects Bandine Street Olsen approached the intersection driving an automobile westerly on the north side of Third Street, turning south, or to the left, on Bandine Street before he reached the center of the intersection. That the point of collision occurred near the southeast corner of the intersection; that Reinders and Olsen were going about the same rate of speed, to wit, ten or twelve miles an hour; that Reinders saw the automobile when he was one hundred feet away from…