Richardson v. Flanery

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The jury returned a verdict in this case favoring Mrs. Richardson, who was involved in an automobile accident with the Flanerys, and the trial court granted the Flanerys’ motion for new trial. Under the circumstances, we hold that the court did not abuse its discretion in setting the jury verdict aside.

On Christmas Day, 1991, the appellees, Thomas and Bonnie Flanery, and their granddaughter, were travelling south on Highway 167 outside of Batesville, Arkansas. As Mr. Flanery was driving, he noticed another car “quite a ways” away — probably some one hundred feet…