Keyser v. Brunette

HOBSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the de*841fendant in a so-called “rear-end” automobile collision case. Plaintiff, Alice G. Keyser, was a gratuitous guest passenger in the vehicle struck by the defendant. The record and testimony show the car in which plaintiff was riding passed the defendant’s car which was travelling about forty-five miles an hour in the same direction. Shortly after overtaking defendant the driver of plaintiff’s car became apprehensive about colliding with a third car which had pulled onto the highway from a roadside fruit…