Johnson v. Ellis

Beasley, Judge.

A plaintiff/pedestrian in a personal injury suit appeals from the grant of a directed verdict in favor of the defendant/motorist. She asserts that “appellee’s duty to appellant under (this) set of facts was a proper issue for jury consideration.”

What follows is undisputed. On Saturday, February 19, 1983, af ter working until about 4:00 p.m. and returning home to bathe and change, plaintiff Johnson was taken to a bar in Sylvester about 6 p.m. There he drank beer over a period of about two hours and met some men who gave him a ride to an interchange of 1-75 and U. S. 280 in…