Rhiness v. Dansie

ELLETT, Justice.

The plaintiffs appeal from a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. The facts are not in dispute. The plaintiffs claim that the inferences to be drawn from those facts would have permitted the jury to find in their favor.

The facts are as follows:

Plaintiffs were driving easterly up Spanish Fork Canyon on U. S. Highway 6-50 at about ten p. m. on February 6, 1968, at a speed between 60 and 65 miles per hour. Their car lights revealed a horse crossing the highway when it was from 300 to 500 feet away. The driver could have stopped the automobile which he was driving in a…