Payne v. Thompson

Beasley, Judge.

Both Officer Thompson’s police car and the vehicle driven by the man he was pursuing struck the car Ruth Emily Payne was driving. Alleging negligence, Payne sued these two men plus the officer’s employer for damages.

This case first appeared before this Court as an interlocutory appeal, in which we affirmed the denial of summary judgment to defendants.1 Following trial, the jury returned a defendants’ verdict. Payne’s motion for new trial was denied. Her sole enumeration of error on appeal is that the court erroneously charged the jury on certain principles of negligence and…