Court Opinion

ID: 9771694
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:51:27.11075+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:35.451781
License: Public Domain

Steele Hays, Justice, dissenting. Because I can find no substantial evidence in this record of a defect in the bridge construction which was the proximate cause of the collision between the Lawson and the Stansell vehicles, I would reverse the judgment entered on the verdict. It is not enough that the bump could have caused the Lawson vehicle, travelling at a high rate of speed, to swerve and lose control, the law sensibly requires causation in fact. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Remel, 185 Ark. 598, 48 S.W.2d 548 (1932). That proof is simply lacking in this case.