Lord v. Poore

Southerland, C. J.:

In the court below Noble Poore, the plaintiff, recovered judgment against Edwin L. Lord, the defendant, for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle collision. Lord appeals. The principal question is whether the evidence justified the court below in submitting to the jury the issue of “last clear chance”. Other errors are also asserted.

The facts hereinafter set forth are undisputed, except where conflict is noted.

On an evening in August, 1952, Poore and Arthur Boyce, a friend, left Milford, Delaware, in Poore’s automobile to take their dogs out for exercise. They stopped at a…