Coleman v. Taber

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of a defendant in a lawsuit arising out of an automobile accident in Birmingham. The issue is whether the trial court erroneously instructed the jury on the doctrine of sudden emergency and portions of the "Alabama Rules of the Road," and if so, whether the appellants properly objected in order to preserve the question for appellate review.

Dorothy H. Coleman had stopped her automobile just past the crest of a hill and was waiting for an oncoming truck to make an improper left-hand U-turn into her lane of traffic. As defendant Sherry Taber crested this…