Jones v. Lyons

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the defendants in a personal injury action brought as a result of two separate automobile collisions in which the car in which plaintiff was riding was struck from the rear. Plaintiff sued both drivers in the same suit, with no apparent objection by either defendant. The plaintiff contends on appeal that the trial court erred in refusing to direct verdicts in her favor; that the trial court improperly charged the jury on the sudden emergency doctrine, the sudden stop statute, and other matters; that the trial court erred…