CARLTON COMPANY v. Poss

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendants in a personal injury action appeal from the judgment and from the denial of their motions for new trial and judgment n. o. v.

In a misting rain at 12:30 a.m. on a relatively straight and level stretch of 1-75, plaintiff’s automobile ran into the rear end of defendants’ vehicle (a rig consisting of a truck cab pulling a 10,000 lb. "track press”). There was expert testimony that defendants’ vehicle was in the right lane, that plaintiff had been straddling the center-line at the point of collision, and that plaintiff had not applied brakes. (However, one officer…