Collins v. Griffin

1. The plaintiff’s counsel insist that there was not sufficient evidence from which the jury could determine that the plaintiff’s negligence was the proximate cause of the collision or that the plaintiff’s negligence was greater than that of the defendant’s agent.

The evidence disclosed that two of the defendant’s witnesses testified that the plaintiff was driving at least 70 miles per hour. Thames, the driver of the defendant’s truck, testified that one of the reasons that he was not able to return to the right-hand lane was because of the rapid speed at which the defendant’s automobile was…