HARRISON v. GARNER

No. 221.

379 P.2d 948 (1963)

William D. HARRISON, Appellant, v. Fred GARNER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

March 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Parrish, Fairbanks, for appellant.

William B. Emmal and Julian C. Rice, Rice & Emmal, Fairbanks, for appellee.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and AREND, JJ.


AREND, Justice.

The basic question presented on this appeal by the plaintiff below from a judgment following a general verdict for the defendant is whether the evidence in the case justified the trial court in giving an instruction on unavoidable accident.

The facts of the case are simple. In the late afternoon of June 19, 1960, the defendant-appellee was driving his Edsel car from Big Delta to Fairbanks over the Richardson Highway, a blacktop pavement road...

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