Parker v. Hyndman

Plaintiff, Mrs. Parker, appealed from an adverse summary judgment in an automobile collision case.

On July 18, 1965, between 6:00 and 7:00 p. m. on a rainy day, Jack Hyndman was driving his Volkswagen south in the right-hand lane of Interstate 75 near Lake City. He had an accident and departed the scene leaving his Volkswagen unattended and parked on the traveled portion of the roadway. Minutes later Mrs. Parker, also traveling south in the right-hand lane, ran into the parked Volkswagen.

Mrs. Parker brought this action alleging that the proximate cause of her accident was Hyndman’s negligence…