McCann v. Lindsey

Hall, Judge.

The general and the special grounds of the defendant’s motion for new trial raise the questions whether the verdict for the plaintiff and the trial court’s instructions to the jury concerning the plaintiff’s contentions of negligence per se, and the law applicable to those contentions, were authorized by the evidence.

The petition alleged negligence by the defendant in failing to keep his automobile under control and a reasonable distance behind, and in failing to stop before colliding with the rear of the plaintiff’s automobile, as well as negligence per se in violation of the…