Brewer v. Johnson

Plaintiff, driving her car, and defendant Prevo, driving defendant Johnson’s car, were both proceeding east on paved Highway No. 149. Defendants’ ear was some fifty or sixty feet to the rear. Plaintiff alleges defendants’ ear struck her car from the rear, with resulting injuries, her car being at all time in her lane of travel. Plaintiff relies upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur and pleads only general negligence. The defendant Donald Lee Prevo asserts that he observed plaintiff’s car pull to the right with the right wheels off the pavement some twelve inches; that her stop light was…