13 N.J. Misc. 684 - Hendler v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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1. “‘ ‘ The other point is' that it was error to direct a verdict. The testimony was that while driving along Ocean avenue the car suddenly swerved and struck the pole. There was testimony from Miss Zipkin that the driver stated at the time that he had dozed momentarily.. The defendant offered no testimony as to the maimer of the happening of the accident. Appellants argue as if the direction were based solely on the proof of the admission that Hendler fell asleep, but this is not so. When a car proceeding along a street suddenly swerves into a pole with no apparent cause, and there is no attempt to explain the occurrence, no claim that any other car or person was involved or that there was a hidden defect in the car, but simply a situation where the driver, whether asleep or awake, steered into a pole, it cannot be said that reasonable minds could differ on the question of negligence. There was no error in the direction of verdicts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tennes v. Tennes