Breasette v. Briscoe

This is a motion for summary judgment in an automobile accident case in which the plaintiff was injured while she was a passenger in a car owned by defendant Briscoe and operated by defendant Fults, when the car veered off the road and hit a utility pole on the left-hand- side of the highway.

No explanation has been advanced to account for the accident. The road was unobstructed, the weather clear and there was no other traffic moving in either direction at the time and place of the accident.

*969The defendants oppose the granting of this motion on the ground that the plaintiff and defendants were…