Byron v. O'Connor

The case is before us on general motion and on exceptions to certain instructions given by the presiding Justice in an action of negligence in which a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff. .

On January 31, 1929, the plaintiff was driving in his automobile from Lewiston to Augusta. On the surface of the highway, some three miles from Augusta, there was for a little distance a. thin coating of ice and snow. The plaintiff’s car skidded at this point, on account of a sudden application of brakes to avoid collision with a car just ahead, and stopped in the ditch headed back toward Lewiston,…