Vierling v. Fry

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

In this accident case the jury returned a verdict for defendant but plaintiff complains that the court gave them improper instructions on the subject of contributory negligence.

Driving his automobile at night on an 18-foot concrete highway, plaintiff ran into the rear of defendant’s truck which, heavily laden with coal, was traveling ahead in the same direction. He testified that he was blinded by the bright headlights of a car approaching from the opposite direction, that he went approximately 150 feet with his vision thus obscured, and that immediately…