Eakins v. Nash

This case is an appeal on questions of law from judgments rendered on jury verdicts for defendant.

The basic facts are comparatively simple and involve a motor vehicle rear-end collision. Plaintiff, driving her own vehicle with no passengers, had stopped at a traffic light at Market Street and Park Avenue in Warren; defendant, also with no passengers, stopped behind her. Plaintiff, making a right turn at the intersection to defendant’s knowledge, started at the light, committed herself to the right turn and as she approached the crosswalk on the intersecting street, stopped to avoid hitting a…