CLINTON v. HANSON

82-387.

435 So.2d 48 (1983)

Joseph Thomas CLINTON, v. Calvin M. HANSON and Mary Lou Hanson.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Hudson of London, Yancey, Clark & Allen, Birmingham, and Conrad M. Fowler of Wallace, Ellis, Head & Fowler, Columbiana, for appellant.

F. Wayne Keith and S.P. Keith, Jr., of Keith, Keith & Keith, Birmingham, for appellees.


SHORES, Justice.

The only issue presented in this appeal is whether the trial judge erred in granting the plaintiffs' motion for new trial after a jury verdict in favor of the defendant. We hold that he did not and affirm.

Calvin and Mary Lou Hanson were travelling north on U.S. 280 on Labor Day, 1979, at about 5:00 p.m. It was raining hard. As Mr. Hanson crested Double Oak Mountain, he saw ten or twelve cars backed up because of an accident ahead. He stopped...

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