LYDQN v. DEAN

No. 5-142.

260 S.W.2d 465 (1953)

LYDQN et al. v. DEAN.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wright, Harrison, Lindsey & Upton, Little Rock, for appellants.

Hebert & Dobbs, Hot Springs, and Moore, Burrow, Chowning & Mitchell, Little Rock, for appellee.


WARD, Justice.

The principal issues involved on this appeal regard instructions given and refused by the court. Specifically we are concerned with the difference in the effect of an instruction containing the clause "a proximate cause" and one containing the clause "the proximate cause".

Facts. It will be necessary to set out only sufficient facts to clarify the issues here involved. About 7:00 p. m. Sunday, June 17, 1951, one John F. Lydon, was driving an...

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