Monteith v. Cundall

REINHARD, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of defendant in a personal injury suit. We affirm.

Around dusk on March 4, 1990, plaintiff and defendant were driving in opposite directions on Highway 72 in Cape Girardeau County. Plaintiff was driving east; defendant was traveling west. Plaintiff, an 81-year-old woman, testified that she saw two sets of headlights coming toward her, side by side. She pulled her car toward the right shoulder of the road. Defendant’s car struck plaintiff’s car. Plaintiff further testified that she did not brake her car before…