GARRIGAN v. LaSALLE COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

Docket No. 5, Calendar No. 48,311.

362 Mich. 262 (1961)

106 N.W.2d 807

GARRIGAN v. LaSALLE COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied February 28, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Donald Bruce, for plaintiff.

Stanton & MacKenzie (H. Monroe Stanton and Robert E. Plunkett, of counsel), for defendant.


SOURIS, J.

Decision in this case turns upon error committed in the trial court's jury charge prejudicial to defendant's right to trial by jury. Involved here is an attempted rebuttal of a rebuttable presumption, the statutory presumption of negligence which arises upon the happening of a rear-end collision. CLS 1956, § 257.402 (Stat Ann 1960 Rev § 9.2102). The ultimate facts are these:

Plaintiff's truck collided with the rear of defendant's truck...

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