Bettner v. Boring

VOLLACK, Justice.

In this personal injury action arising from an automobile accident, Maurine Bett-ner asked this court to review the court of appeals’ reversal of the jury’s verdict in her favor. The court of appeals ruled in Boring v. Bettner, 739 P.2d 884 (Colo.App.1987), that the trial court committed reversible error when it declined to give the plaintiff’s tendered jury instruction on the presumption of negligence arising from a rear-end collision. We granted certiorari and now conclude that the trial court’s refusal to give the tendered instruction under the facts of this case did not…