Pate v. Sutton

This is a civil action brought to recover damages alleged to have resulted from a collision between two motor vehicles at Apponaug Pour Corners, so called, in the city of Warwick. The case was tried to a justice of the Superior Court sitting with a jury, a verdict for the defendant being returned. The plaintiff is now in this court prosecuting an appeal raising therein a single issue: whether the trial justice erred in instructing the jury in the law governing the making of left turns at highway intersections.

The testimony is in conflict as to the precise circumstances in which the collision…