Shaver v. Davis

Trial of this suit of Joseph T. Shaver against Lynn Raymond Davis having resulted in a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, Shaver and his wife, who joined him in a loss of consortium claim, have appealed from the judgment entered on that verdict. Trial was held in the Circuit Court for Howard County in January, 1976, Judge George B. Rasin presiding.

We need to consider only the assertion by the appellants that the trial judge erred in his instruction to the jury on the law relating to automatic traffic signals. The factual basis for the instruction is virtually undisputed. At about 10:00…