Court Opinion

ID: 9685722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:58:43.173819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:53.393576
License: Public Domain

WUEST, Chief Justice
(special concurrence).
I concur with everything in this decision except that portion which suggests the jury could have found Kusser contributorially negligent by stopping too suddenly. She was faced with an emergency where she had to make a speedy decision and because her choice resulted in being struck from the rear does not make her negligent. Johnson v. Chicago & N.W.R. Co., 72 S.D. 580, 38 N.W.2d 348 (1949); Campbell v. Jackson, 65 S.D. 154, 272 N.W. 293 (1937). See also, Byrns v. St. Louis County, 295 N.W.2d 517 (Minn.1980).