Johnson v. Hunter

As to the two special charges given to the jury at the instance of defendant, the Court of Appeals found one of them proper and the other improper and prejudicial. The court also found a part of the general charge to have been prejudicial to plaintiff. Are such determinations justified?

Defendant’s first special charge is as follows:

“If you find from the evidence that on the date of the accident and prior thereto, certain signs appeared on the highway at the approaches to the bridge, said signs containing warning language one-lane bridge,’ that said signs are cautionary in their nature and do…