Young v. Clogston

The plaintiff appeals from a directed verdict for the defendant after a trial in which the plaintiff claimed damages for injuries resulting from an automobile accident.

On June 18, 1981, at approximately six o’clock in the evening, the plaintiff drove her automobile south on Route 3 toward the village of Pittsburg. Along the way she came upon a tractor-trailer loaded with logs, which the defendant had parked on the roadway. It was a brilliant, sunny day and although the plaintiff slowed her vehicle when temporarily blinded by the sun, she never saw the parked tractor-trailer due to the glare…