Jiles v. Peters

Blackburn, Judge.

The appellants/plaintiffs, Hope Jiles and her husband Bernard Jiles, appeal from the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict in favor of the appellee/defendant, Thomas F. Peters, in this personal injury action. In two separate enumerations of error, the Jileses challenge the trial court’s instructions to the jury.

The evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict shows that at approximately midnight on September 18, 1990, Hope Jiles was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Franchester Townsend northbound on Interstate 1-75. Townsend exited the interstate at…