Massingille v. Meridith

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

This is an automobile accident case in which the only question on appeal is whether the trial court was wrong in directing a verdict for the plaintiff.

The plaintiff, Meridith, was in the process of entering the northbound portion of the North-South Expressway in Louisville by way of a ramp leading upward from Critten-den Drive when his car was struck from the rear by an automobile driven by the defendant, Massingille. The ramp in question enters rather abruptly and at an acute angle onto the main traveled portion of the expressway, there being no merging or “feeder”…