Ross v. Burnham

The verdicts indicate findings by the jury that the defendants Desharnais and Burnham were guilty of causal negligence but that the plaintiffs Ross and the defendant Fish were not. No question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support these findings is raised except with respect to the defendant Burnham. As to him it is contended that there is no credible evidence that he had time to do anything to avoid colliding with the Desharnais car after it went out of control as a result of its contact with the Fish car.

The evidence with respect to the interval of time between collisions is even…