Watters v. Querry

HALL, Justice:

Plaintiff appeals a second jury verdict and judgment 1 which dismissed her complaint against defendant Elizabeth Hemingway (hereinafter “defendant”) for personal injuries resulting from an automobile accident.

On February 26, 1976, at approximately 10:00 p. m., defendant was driving her car westbound on Elgin Avenue in Salt Lake County. She turned right onto 7th East Street, a major thoroughfare. Then proceeding northbound, she moved from the extreme outside lane of traffic to the inside lane (that nearest the highway divider). At a break in the highway divider, defendant slowed…