Muller v. Reeher

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries sustained in a rear-end car wreck. The plaintiff, Robert Norris Reeher, was travelling east and had stopped his car in the left lane to the right of a double yellow stripe in the center of the road. He did this in preparing to make a left turn into a glass company’s place of business. There was no break in the double stripe at the point where plaintiff had stopped. While in this stopped position the plaintiff’s car was struck from the rear by a car driven by the defendant, Pauline Muller.

Following a jury trial,…