Lockridge v. Mercer

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is a motor vehicle collision case in which the jury found both drivers negligent. Plaintiff appellants appeal on the sole ground that the instructions to the jury were erroneous.

The plaintiff driver was operating a Volkswagen pickup truck, proceeding east on U. S. Highway 60 near Owensboro. This is a two-lane paved highway. He made a left turn to reach a parellel “lane” on the north side of the highway and was struck broadside in the left lane by defendant appellees’ truck, which was attempting to pass at the time.

The plaintiff driver in the Volkswagen was unable to…