Franco v. Burtex Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 1 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Felipe Rodriguez committed any negligent act or omission which proximately caused the occurrence in question? In answering the above question you shall consider only whether or not Felipe Rodriguez was negligent in any one or more of the following particulars and none other. A. In failing to keep such a lookout as a person using ordinary care would have kept, if you so find; B. In starting to drive from the outside traffic lane to the inside traffic lane when it would not have appeared to a person using ordinary care that such movement could be made with safety, if you so find. You are instructed that when any roadway has been divided into two (2) clearly marked lanes for traffic, the driver of a vehicle shall drive as nearly as practical entirely within a single lane and shall not drive from such lane until the driver shall first ascertain that such movement can be made with safety. C. In turning from a direct course on U.S. Expressway 83 to the left without giving a signal for not less than the last 100 feet traveled by his vehicle, if you so find. You are instructed that no person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway without giving an appropriate signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harker v. Coastal Engineering, Inc.

2. “Where the court has fairly submitted the controlling issues raised by such pleading and the evidence, the case shall not be reversed because of the failure to submit other and various phases or different shades of the same issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ramos v. Garcia