Woods v. . Freeman

The defendant, upon this appeal, presents but two questions: (1) Did the court err in overruling defendant’s motion as of nonsuit? (2) Was there error in the charge on the first issue?

The defendant alleged and contended that one of the men fighting on the shoulder of the road suddenly ran out into the highway and immediately in front of the defendant’s truck, just as his truck and the car occupied by the plaintiff were meeting on the highway, and that this created a sudden emergency; that the driver, being suddenly confronted with a perilous and dangerous situation, and with no time in which…