121 So. 2d 804 - Douglas v. Hackney’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1964
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Falnes v. Kaplan · Rutherford v. Illinois Central Railroad · 121 So. 2d 186 - James v. Keene
Most-quoted passages
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“To require the trial judge to instruct upon the law of last clear chance in this case, upon the possibility that the deceased was visible in the roadway in a position of peril and that the defendant should have reasonably discovered this fact when he was in a position that he could have by the use of ordinary care avoided the accident, would be to authorize a verdict entirely upon conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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