Ward v. Meadows
Ward v. Meadows
Opinion of the Court
We are persuaded this was error. From the defendant’s evidence the jury -could infer that he became aware of the plaintiff’s peril just as he turned his car from the driveway into Juniper street, for he says he then saw that the motorcycle was going to skid, and immediately slowed his car and “eased around” the corner, and that at this time the plaintiff was about 75 feet distant. The plaintiff insisted, that he was driving his motorcycle on the right-hand side of the street, never a greater distance than 9 feet from the curb, and that defendant drove his automobile across the street onto the side where plaintiff was, inflicting the -injuries complained of. The evidence of the defendant ,was to the effect that at the rate of speed he was going he could have stopped his car within 10 or 11 feet. It is manifest, therefore, that if the plaintiff’s evidence is to be believed, the jury could infer from all the testimony in the ease that defendant did not use all the means at his command to avoid injuring the plaintiff after discovery of his peril; for, accepting the plaintiff’s version of the accident, the defendant, instead of stopping within J1 feet, went across the street, and within 9 feet of the opposite curb, before striking plaintiff. The question of subsequent negligence therefore should have been submitted to the jury, and the court committed error in instructing them to the contrary.
We are not convinced that a case had been made out under the wanton count, and therefore conclude no error was committed in giving the affirmative charge as to count 3.
For the errors indicated, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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