Upshaw v. O'Bryant
Upshaw v. O'Bryant
Opinion of the Court
The sole assignment of error in this case is to the overruling of the demurrers, both general and special. However the plaintiff in error, in argument before this court, insists only on the ruling of the court in overruling four grounds of special demurrer. Three of these demurrers attack allegations of the petition on the ground that they are
2. The action was one brought by the plaintiff against two defendants who were alleged to have been racing their automobiles along the road which the plaintiff was traveling, and in the opposite direction to the plaintiff, both of said automobiles having, under the allegations, collided head-on with the plaintiff’s automobile. Paragraph 12 of the petition thus demurred to alleged: “That as said vehicles passed the crest of said upgrade at the hereinabove mentioned speed, the brakes of each vehicle was immediately applied, but notwithstanding they continued on along Roberts Drive and slammed into and against the front end of plaintiff’s vehicle with great force completely demolishing plaintiff’s vehicle.” One of the grounds of demurrer insisted on attacks this paragraph on the ground that it is redundant and contradictory for the reasons that said petition alleges in other paragraphs that the defendant was on his own, or right side of the road, and that the plaintiff was on his own, or right side of the road. This ground of demurrer is without merit, and the trial court did not err in overruling it.
Judgment affirmed.
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