Havens v. Havens

Appellant contends that the emergency doctrine is applicable to him as a matter of law for the reason that while he was proceeding with due care he was suddenly confronted with a car 250 to 500 feet away, approaching him on the wrong side of the road and coming toward him at a high rate of speed. He urges that he ought not be held negligent because he turned to the left side of the road at the last instant in an attempt to avoid a head-on collision. He maintains too, that he ought not be held liable to his wife for his action deliberately taken, as a pure exercise of judgment, in choosing…