Patusco v. Prince MacAroni, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Weintraub, C. J.

This case arose out of a rear-end collision between moving vehicles in a 50-mile zone. Plaintiff husband, whose ear was struck in the rear by defendants’ truck, said he applied his brakes because traffic ahead slowed to about 30 miles per hour while defendants claimed plaintiff, after trying to enter another lane, returned suddenly to his original path and unnecessarily applied his brakes when another vehicle in that other lane sounded a warning horn. Plaintiff and his wife, a passenger, both claimed personal injuries. The jury found in…