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199 Minn. 543

273 N.W 255

Thorstad v. Doyle

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided April 30, 1937

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1937-04-30

Relies on Guile v. Greenberg

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Decided 1937-04-30

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1962

3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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Holt, Justice

¶1 (concurring).

¶2 I concur in all that is said in this decision, but I think in the case of Guile v. Greenberg, 192 Minn. 548, 257 N. W. 649, cited with approval herein, the second paragraph of the syllabus is not accurate when it says there is no contributory negligence where the actions *554 of plaintiff “in no way contributed to, were a substantial factor in, or a material element to the happening of a collision with defendant’s car which resulted in his injuries.” It seems to me cases can be readily suggested where a plaintiff’s negligence had no active part in producing an accident or collision between two vehicles but where such negligence nevertheless proximately contributed to cause his injury.

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