Court Opinion

ID: 9457958
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:39:19.820984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:35.507867
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KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting) .
The defendant’s theory was that although she was 100 feet behind the car in front of her, and traveling at a speed of less than 50 miles per hour, she found herself unable adequately to brake her own vehicle solely because the pavement beneath her was slippery in spots, although not generally icy, and that her difficulties with the culvert arose from the fact of its concealment from view. There was a conflict in the testimony of the witnesses as to the condition of the road.
Whatever I might myself have decided had I been trying the case without a jury, it seems to me, as it clearly did to Judge Morgan, that a jury question was presented here. I would, therefore, affirm.