Hudson v. Anderson Concrete Co.

This matter is before us on plaintiffs-appellants’ appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County sustaining defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the end of plaintiffs-appellants’ opening statement.

Plaintiffs stated in their opening statement that Elvira Hudson (plaintiff) was traveling southbound on Hamilton Road in the right lane of the four-lane highway; that, when the light changed at the intersection to the north of the East Fifth Avenue-Hamilton Road intersection, she proceeded south on Hamilton Road in the right lane and noticed the driver of a car on…