Daw v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1948
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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Relies on Iglesias v. Campbell
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“Accepting plaintiff's version of the facts of the accident, he saw the other truck coming toward him, over the road's center in ample time to stop his own vehicle or to have pulled it several feet to the right and into a zone of safety until the impending danger had passed. Obviously, on this theory of the accident, *Page 416 he had the last clear chance to avert it and failed to avail himself of the opportunity then open to him.”
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