Legal Opinion
Compton v. Pletch
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided October 29, 1990No. 12A02-9003-CV-177PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUCHANAN, Judge.
CASE SUMMARY
Appellant-plaintiff James Brian Compton (Compton) appeals a jury verdict finding him forty percent at fault for an auto accident, claiming the trial court erred by failing to give the jury a sudden emergency instruction.
We reverse and remand for new trial.
FACTS
The facts of this case are not in dispute. On December 8, 1987, Compton was driving his 1982 Mercury Lynx east on State Road 28, a four-lane highway just outside of Frankfort, Indiana. State Road 28 in that area is a four-lane highway. Because several cars were pulling onto State Road 28 from factories which…
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