Lawson v. Walker

CAMPBELL, Judge.

The plaintiff assigns as error the following portion of the charge by the trial court:

“Now, in this case, the defendant contends that she was confronted with a sudden emergency. Now, I instruct you that if a person through no negligence on her part is suddenly or unexpectedly confronted with peril arising from either the actual presence or the appearance of imminent danger to herself danger, to herself or to others is not required to use the same judgment that is required when there is more time to decide what to do. Her duty is to exercise only that care which a reasonably,…