Williams v. Sossoman's Funeral Home, Inc.

By motions to nonsuit defendants challenge the right of plaintiffs to recover. The reasons assigned are: (1) Defendant’s vehicle was “an authorized emergency vehicle” on an emergency errand, and as such, given by statute and ordinance priority in the right to use the intersection and the right to travel at a speed made unlawful as to other vehicles. They merely exercised the rights accorded the ambulance, and negligence cannot be predicated on the exercise of legal rights. (2) Williams, operator of the Chevrolet, was contributorily negligent in (a) failing to yield the right of way to…