Vander Laan v. Miedema

In this rear-end collision case the jury returned a verdict of no cause of action. Since the controlling question presented on appeal is whether the evidence entitled defendants to the “sudden emergency” instruction given by the trial court, we accept the facts as they are on favorable view of the evidence and inferences therefrom to defendants.

The accident occurred on the morning of June 24, 1965, on Aberdeen Street, N. E., in the city of Grand Rapids. At the point of impact Aberdeen is a paved two-lane, residential street with a 35 m.p.h. speed limit. Plaintiff-driver Dorothy Vander Laan’s…