Deans v. Abernathy

DIES, Chief Justice.

This is a rear-end collision case where plaintiff below was driver of the lead vehicle. Parties are referred to herein as they were below. Trial was to a jury which convicted defendant of: failure to keep a proper lookout, which was a proximate cause of the collision; failure to make such application of the brakes as a person using ordinary care would have made, which was a proximate cause of the collision ; and failure to make a turn of his vehicle to the right as would have been made by a person exercising ordinary care, which was a proximate cause of the collision.

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