Lambert v. Parrish
Indiana Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Presiding Judge.
As the appellant, the Reverend Lloyd Lambert, sat at his desk at work one February day in 1978, a man burst into his office and told him that the Reverend's wife, Dorothy, had been in a bad automobile accident at the end of the alley behind the office. Rev. Lambert ran from his office, and, as he headed up the alley, slipped on a patch of ice, injuring his back.
Claiming his injuries were proximately caused by the accident and his attempt to rescue his wife (the reseue doctrine) Rev. Lambert joined with Dorothy in suing Wayne Parrish, the driver of the other automobile…
Also in this document: Concurrence.
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