Pallini v. Dankowski

The questions now before us are whether the requested special instruction was a correct statement of law, and, if so, whether the instant record contains evidence warranting a special instruction concerning defendant’s possible violation of Section 4511.21 of the Revised Code, the assured clear distance statute. See Lackner v. Burns (1964), 175 Ohio St. 469, Bradley v. Mansfield Rapid Transit, Inc. (1950), 154 Ohio St. 154, Washington Fidelity Nat. Ins. Co. v. Herbert (1932), 125 Ohio St. 591. Cf. Smith v. Flesher (1967), 12 Ohio St. 2d 107.

The pertinent portion of the instruction reads as…