Elliott v. Hooks

BRIGHTMIRE, Presiding Judge.

Who ran the red light was the crucial issue facing the jury below. By its verdict it found defendant did not. Plaintiff, a passenger in the other car, appeals saying the judgment entered upon that verdict should be vacated because the trial court (1) refused to give an instruction she requested regarding independent concurring acts of joint tortfeasors, and (2) gave an instruction on sudden emergency. We disagree and affirm.

Around ten o’clock one night in April 1971 plaintiff was riding home from church in a car with her friends, the Dar*351lings. They entered the…