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Title: Matson v. Christy
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 23, 1965
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 51 KB

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The opinion of the court was delivered by This action was brought to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained in an automobile accident. The case was tried to a jury which returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and judgment was entered thereon. After his motion for a new trial was overruled, the defendant appealed. For the sake of clarity, the appellee, Ellen Matson, will hereafter be referred to as plaintiff, and the appellant, Roy Christy, as the defendant. The plaintiff's evidence, although much of it was disputed, fairly showed the following: At the time of the collision, the plaintiff was a passenger in a car being driven by her husband, Reuben Matson. The evening was stormy, it was snowing a little bit, and the highway was slick in spots. As the Matson car was proceeding down a long hill, cars were observed at the bottom, one of which, it turned out, was driven by a man named Murray, who had stopped his car just short of a culvert being sanded by highway employees from a truck stopped on the culvert. On observing the cars, plaintiff's husband slowed down and applied the brakes, but because of the slippery pavement near the culvert, he was unable to stop entirely and struck the Murray car lightly. Some thirty