WHITING, Justice.
In this personal injury case, we deal with the sufficiency of proof of a 10-year-old child's capacity for contributory negligence. We also determine whether a lay witness was competent to estimate the speed of the defendant's car.
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on June 3, 1978, Matthew Dewhirst, then 10 and one-half years old, was seated in the front passenger seat of a station wagon driven by Kenneth G. Brown. After Brown parked facing traffic...
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