Robertson v. Jackson

Deen, Judge.

Rear-end collisions are no exception to the rule of law that there is no absolute duty upon the following driver to avoid a collision, so that where no more appears than that there has been such a collision, with no facts proven from which an inference of negligence can be drawn, the plaintiff has failed to carry the burden of proof. Hay v. Carter, 94 Ga. App. 382 (94 SE2d 755), and, as to applicable jury instructions, see Flanigan v. Reville, 107 Ga. App. 382 (130 SE2d 258) and Davenport v. Robinson, 109 Ga. App. 753 (137 SE2d 380). Under fact situations where either the…