Johnson v. Curenton

Clark, Judge.

For determination here is the comparatively unusual situation of a trial judge having directed a verdict for plaintiff as to liability in a personal injury suit by a passenger in the lead automobile of a rear-end collision against the driver of the following car. Such limited verdicts with fixing of amounts of damages, if any, left to the jury, have been upheld by this court. See Sutherland’s Eggs, Inc. v. Barber, 116 Ga. App. 393 (157 SE2d 491) and Rosenfeld v. Young, 117 Ga. App. 35 (1) (159 SE2d 447), where both headnotes state the principle that, "The evidence having shown…