Senn v. Alabama Gas Corp.

The plaintiff, Frank J. Senn, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury's verdict in favor of the defendants, Alabama Gas Corporation a/k/a Alabama Gas Company ("Alabama Gas") and its employee Jeffrey L. Sizemore. We affirm.

Senn, a firefighter and paramedic with the City of Montgomery, was injured on November 22, 1989, when the fire medic truck in which he was a passenger was struck from the rear by an Alabama Gas utility truck being driven by Sizemore. The collision occurred under rainy conditions; the point of impact was on a downhill slope, in a 30-mile-per-hour maximum speed zone.…