Gullinese v. Fountain

This appeal is from a final judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of appel-lees in appellant’s suit for personal injuries. Such injuries were sustained when appellant, two years old at the time, ran into the path of a truck owned by appellee Letsinger and being operated by appellee Fountain. Appellant assigns as error the trial court’s decision to instruct the jury on the Sudden Emergency Doctrine.

An examination of the record discloses that evidence was introduced at the trial which, if believed, made the Sudden Emergency Doctrine applicable. Consequently, it was quite proper for the…