BREWER v. JOHNSON

No. 48775.

72 N.W.2d 556 (1955)

Doris BREWER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Florence JOHNSON and Donald Lee Prevo, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. W. Harris, Bloomfield, Joseph P. Lennon, Ottumwa, for appellants.

Paul Proctor, Keokuk, Bailey C. Webber, Ottumwa, for appellee.


HAYS, Justice.

Plaintiff, driving her car, and Defendant Prevo, driving Defendant Johnson's car, were both proceeding east on paved Highway No. 149. Defendants' car was some fifty or sixty feet to the rear. Plaintiff alleges Defendants' car struck her car from the rear with resulting injuries, her car being at all time in her lane of travel. Plaintiff relies upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur and pleads only general negligence. The Defendant, Donald Lee Prevo...

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