Lidel v. Kelly

In this automobile accident case, the jury found for the defendants, but the trial court granted plaintiff’s motion for a new trial based solely on the failure to give plaintiff’s requested instruction on the following-car doctrine. The defendants appeal from the order granting a new trial.

The statute 2 declares that vehicles shall not follow other vehicles more closely than is reasonable or prudent. The

omitted requested instruction so states. 3 Appellants contend the omission of this instruction was not erroneous, because in another instruction 4 the court did advise, the jury that the…