Montgomery v. Murray

BLACKBIRD, Justice:

The broad issue in this appeal is whether the trial court’s order sustaining a motion for new trial in a rear-end automobile collision case should be affirmed or reversed.

The collision occurred when an automobile driven by defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as “plaintiff”, stopped, facing north, behind two other automobiles facing in the same direction, on Oklahoma City’s South May Avenue, where it intersects with a cross-street extending in an easterly and westerly direction. While plaintiff’s car was thus stopped, waiting in line to move ahead, an automobile…