Buhidar v. Abernathy

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

In this automobile collision ease, Elias Buhidar sued Railey Paper Company, Inc., and its employee, Lyle Elmer Abernathy, for resulting personal injuries. Buhidar and Abernathy were each driving their automobiles in the same direction on a four lane street when Abernathy drove his car from the inside lane at an angle partially into the outside lane where Buhidar was traveling. A side-swipe type of collision between the two automobiles then occurred.

Trial was to a jury which found both primary and contributory negligence proximately causing the collision, and which found…