Court Opinion

ID: 9572932
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:45:57.216793+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:45.172742
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
Plaintiff in error insists that the request to charge that the driver’s negligence could not be imputed to plaintiff involved the question of the plaintiff’s negligence and therefore was an invitation to give the other charges complained of. After further consideration we are still of the opinion that it can not reasonably be contended that the additional charges were invited by the request. The request did not involve actual and personal negligence of the plaintiff. It only involved imputed negligence, that which was legally chargeable to the plaintiff because of another’s act and his relationship to the plaintiff. The additional charges were broader than the request and covered all kinds of negligence of which the plaintiff could be guilty when there was no evidence of any kind of negligence on the part of the plaintiff. The only instructions the request could be said to have invited would be an explanation to the jury of the meaning of imputed negligence.

Judgment adhered to.