Morin v. Morin

The defendant relies upon the emergency doctrine. The plaintiff was a passenger in a Dodge sedan truck driven by her brother, the defendant, and proceeding northerly, when the truck came into collision with a Chevrolet sedan driven by Joseph Martin in a southerly course. The time was between eleven and twelve in the evening.

The highway at the point of accident, and for several hundred feet in both directions, is substantially straight, but the defendant’s car, for a distance of at least four hundred feet, had been ascending a grade that reached a crest at a point about one hundred and fifty…