Court Opinion

ID: 8281335
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 04:41:23.791463+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:40.977880
License: Public Domain

PENDLETON, J.
This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment-entered on a verdict and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The action is for personal injuries alleged to have been received by reason of defendant’s negligence. On conflicting evidence the jury found in plaintiff’s favor, and there is no good reason for disturbing the verdict.
Defendant requested the court to charge that there can be no recovery for plaintiff, predicated upon the claim of failure of the defendant to give warning of the approach of the automobile. The court refused to charge as requested, and defendant excepted. The request was based on the assumption that, as plaintiff concededly saw the automobile when at least 25 feet away, a warning would not have added anything to the sum of his knowledge, and its absence could not, therefore, have contributed to the accident. Generally speaking, where parties approach from opposite directions, this may be so; but here the automobile was standing on the right-hand side of the road facing south. As plaintiff approached on his bicycle from behind, it backed northeasterly towards plaintiff and across his path. Under such circumstances it cannot be said that a warning horn might not have apprised plaintiff of its intention to- back or turn. The refusal to charge in the precise words of the request, and its modification and charge as modified, was therefore proper.
Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concur.