Bannon v. Pfiffner

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involving a collision of two cars turns on whether a fact issue was generated on the existence of a sudden emergency.

The jury could find the facts to be as follows. A valley, slightly over a half-mile in breadth, lies between two low hills on United States Highway 20 near Raymond, Iowa, east of Waterloo. Early on the afternoon of January 4, 1980, freezing rain began to fall and the highway became “kind of slushy and crunchy.”

At about 4:45 p.m., Gail A. Ward was driving west across the valley on her right side of the highway. Four cars were proceeding east: a van…