Court Opinion

ID: 9868231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:24:43.735094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:48.345329
License: Public Domain

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes:
The question of whether it is negligence as a matter of law under all circumstances for the operator of an automobile to drive it at night at such rate of speed that he cannot stop within the limit of his vision ahead is one that has given the Courts of other jurisdictions considerable difficulty and upon which the authorities are divided. 58 A. L. R., 1493. We have not had occasion heretofore to pass upon the question and I do-not understand that we are doing so now. So interpreting the opinion of the Chief Justice, I concur. From the evidence in the case, the only reasonable inference is that the car was being driven at a very excessive rate of speed.
Mr. Associate Justice Oxner concurs.