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· 4/28/1978

Brown v. Schriver

Citations

  • 386 A.2d 45
  • 254 Pa. Super. 468
  • 1978 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2892

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • gravel on roadway constitutes stationary object on road rather than something unexpectedly thrust into a driver’s lane of travel
  • gravel on roadway constitutes stationary object on road rather than something unexpectedly thrust into a driver's lane of travel
  • sua sponte interjection of charge on sudden emergency doctrine erroneous when appropriate charge was on assured clear distance ahead rule
  • sua sponte interjection of charge on sudden emergency doctrine erroneous when appropriate charge was on assured clear distance ahead rule
  • “court should have instructed the jury to consider whether appellee, paying due regard to the traffic surface, should have and could have seen the alleged loose gravel before slipping upon it”
  • gravel in the road was not a sudden emergency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Watkins, President Judge, and Jacobs, Hoffman, Cercone, Price, Van Der Voort and Spaeth

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