Null v. Gray

McMILLIAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the jury verdict of $6500.00 in favor of plaintiff-respondent Charles Null on Count II of a negligence action. For the reasons stated below, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

On August 31, 1971, respondent’s wife was in one of a line of cars stopped at a stop sign, when a chain collision occurred.

The car behind her was struck from the rear by defendant Gray’s car, causing St. Clair’s car to strike her car from the rear. Although she did not complain of any injury at that time, the next day she consulted her family doctor, Dr. Miles Whitener, for…