Foreman v. American Automobile Insurance

The application for rehearing of the plaintiff and of the intervenor calls to our attention that both defendants, Whitehead and Morgan, eventually admitted on cross-examination that Morgan’s truck made a sudden, unsignalled stop when just 90-120 feet in front of Whitehead’s. Although on direct examination these witnesses attempted to explain the accident otherwise, I think their admissions against interest on cross-examination, corroborated by the other evidence, clearly supports by a preponderance of the evidence the trial court’s finding that Morgan’s truck suddenly stopped without signal,…