Court Opinion

ID: 9579740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:58:07.46771+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:44.093154
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Judge Webb
dissenting.
I dissent. I do not believe there was sufficient evidence of contributory negligence to be submitted to the jury. If the plaintiff could see defendant’s driveway for 200 feet he was not required to anticipate the defendant would come out of the driveway and force him off the road. For this reason I do not believe there is evidence from which the jury could find his failure to keep a proper lookout was a proximate cause of the collision.
I also do not believe there is sufficient evidence that plaintiff was speeding to create a jury issue. If he was driving at 50 miles per hour there is no evidence this was not within the speed limit. I do not believe that we should hold that his negligent speed could be a proximate cause of the collision. He was not required to anticipate the defendant would come out of her driveway in front of him and slow down to meet this eventuality.
Finally, I do not believe the evidence that plaintiff did not apply his brakes but drove on the shoulder of the road is sufficient to create a jury issue. He was faced with a sudden emergency. I do not believe the jury could find he did not act as a reasonable prudent man would have acted under the circumstances.
*253The jury by its verdict has found the defendant came out of her driveway and caused the plaintiff to run off the road. I do not believe we should disturb this verdict.