Court Opinion

ID: 9538720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:40:36.687276+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:07.048578
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*471WOLFE, Chief Justice.
I concur except that I do not think the plaintiff by his requested instruction No. 6 intended to interject “last clear chance” into the case, as Mr. Justice CROCKETT suggests. That requested instruction directs the jury to find for the plaintiff if they find certain evidence to be true, unless they “also find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence”. Had the plaintiff intended that requested instruction No. 6 embrace “last clear chance”, he would not have desired that the jury be instructed to find for the defendant if they found contributory negligence inasmuch as under the last clear chance doctrine a plaintiff may recover despite his contributory negligence.