Raines v. Williams

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment following a jury verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $20,000 in a case arising from an accident between a car driven by plaintiff Williams and a Caterpillar timberjack driven by defendant Raines and owned by the Lassiter Land Company.

The accident occurred on January 11, 1978, at around 6:45 a.m. It was still dark. Williams had just created a hill and was negotiating a curve when he collided with the 1976 Caterpillar timberjack, which is a large piece of heavy logging equipment designed for loading logs in the woods. The timberjack was not…