Legal Opinion
Stuart v. Rizzo
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 18, 1968PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERRMANN, Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, Joseph S. Rizzo, in an automobile negligence case. The judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded for new trial, because in the instructions the jury was given an incomplete version of the Statute on brakes, 21 Del.C. § 4304. 1
These basic facts are undisputed:
The defendant, Ann Jennings Stuart, was driving an automobile in a southerly direction downhill on Penny Hill, a steep grade on U.S. Route 13 just north of Wilmington. The intersection of U.S. Route 13 with Shipley Road was controlled by a traffic control…
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